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___—‘ years gone by, have held similar official relations to the Foreign 
pte Missionary work of the Church, —to the brethren of 
the Domestic Committee and their 
; honored and faithful . 2 
Secretary and General Agent, and to the beloved peter” 


THE REV. Wo. H. HARgs, 


‘Who has succeeded to the office of Secretary and General Agent | 
of the Foreign Committee,—is this work 


— Respectiullp Inscribed 


py) him who has gathered herein a record of the past, 

with the earnest hope that 
the labor thus oT may be of service to the cause to whose interests the 
Pre ew work is devoted. 


UR FATHER, who art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom 

come. Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day 

our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who tres- 

pass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil: 

For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. 
AMEN. 


GOD, we have heard with our ears, and our Fathers have declared unto 
us, the noble works that Thou didst in their days and in the old time 
before them. 
O Lord, arise, help us, and deliver us for Thine honor. 
GLoRY be to the FATHER, and to the SON, and to the HOLY GuostT. 
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. 
AMEN, 


ALMIGHTY GOD, who hast knit together Thine elect in one Communion 

Fellowship in the mystical body of Thy Son, Christ our Lord; grant us 
grace so to follow Thy blessed Saints in all virtuous and godly living, that 
we may come to those unspeakable joys which Thou hast prepared for those 
who unfeignedly love Thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN, 


LMIGHTY and everlasting Gop, from whom cometh every good and 

and perfect gift, send down upon our Bishops and other Clergy, and upon 

the congregations committed to their charge, the healthful spirit of Thy grace; 

and, that they may truly please Thee, pour upon them the continual dew of 

Thy blessing. Grant this, O Lorp, for the honor of our Advocate and Medi- 
ator, Jesus Christ. AMEN. 


ALMIGHTY GOD, who hast built Thy Church upon the foundation of 

the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the head corner- 
stone: Grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit by their doctrine 
that we may be made an holy temple acceptable unto Thee; through Jesus 
Christ our Lord. AMEN, 


THE grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship 
of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. AMEN, 


INTRODUCTION. 


A Few words will suffice to apprise the reader of the scope 
and design of the volume which is here introduced. 

It embraces all important particulars relating to the Foreign 
Missionary work of the Protestant Episcopal Church, including 
all matters of a general character in the Proceedings, Reports, 
Appeals, and Addresses of the Domestic and Foreign Mission- 
ary Society, in which, of course, the Foreign Missionary work 
had its full share of interest. As a matter of convenience, 
moreover, the abstracts of receipts have been made to embrace 
those which relate to both departments, Domestic as well as 
Foreign, and there needs to be added only that part of the 
history of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society which 
relates excluswely to Domestic Missions, to make the history 
complete in regard to the whole work of the Church in both 
departments. 

The design of this volume is to bring before the Church, after 
a lapse of fifty years, a record of the zeal and devotion of those 
good men, some of whom are still with us, but most have fallen 
asleep, who, with patient toil, amid many trials and discourage- 
ments, laid the foundation of the Society, and faithfully built 
thereupon in succeeding years ; and, moreover, to call to remem- 
brance those holy women, patterns to their own sex in our day, 
who devoted themselves as helpers in the work of spreading 
abroad the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. 


vi Introduction. 


This book, it is hoped, will thus bear its part in the good 
purpose of the Secretaries of the Domestic and Foreign Com- 
mittees, to have the meeting of the Board of Missions, and of the 
General Convention in Oct., 1871, signalized by Spectra JUBILEE 
Services, in commemoration of the work of our fathers, and 
will enable some, to whom the facts are not fully known, to enter — 
more intelligently and with more satisfaction into those interest- 
ing services. | 

A further design of this volume is to enable the younger 
clergy, especially, to make themselves acquainted with the Mis- 
sionary work of the Church from the beginning; so that, pos- 
sessing themselves of the information here given, and of that 
which it is designed to give in the Sxconp Vorume, they will 
be able to follow on in the current history of our Missions with 
largely increased satisfaction and interest. 

It has been thought well to reproduce, as we have done, a 
large part of the published proceedings of the Society for the 
period embraced by this volume—1821 to 1835. The Jubilee 
Services seemed to call for it, and, moreover, we have thought 
that the value of the book would thereby be greatly enhanced, 
inasmuch as the old records are very scarce and have been seen 
by very few of the present generation. 

We desire to express our grateful acknowledgments to the 
Rev. Dr. S. R. Johnson, and the Rev. Dr. Eigenbrodt, for the 
loan of valuable documents; and to Mr. Frederick Schroeder Sill, 
of the General Theological Seminary, for his kind assistance in 
searching for papers. 

Acknowledgments are due also to the Rev. Dr. Tyng for the 
loan of an original portrait of Bishop Griswold, from which the 
likeness of the Bishop in this volume has been copied; and also 
to the Rev. Dr. Dyer, the Hon. C. N. Potter, and G. W. Burn- 
ham, Esq., of New York, for the use of other pictures. 


Erle lOnY 


OF THE 


FOREIGN MISSIONARY WORK, 


CHAPTER I. 


A TRIBUTE of praise is due to Almighty God for the revival 
of Missionary interest which characterized the opening years of 
the present century. In the rich blessing of such revival, our 
own beloved Church (in common with the various denominations 
of Christians in this country) participated. This new life was 
manifested in desires and efforts to extend the Kingdom of 
Christ, not in the home-field alone, but also, and more especially, 
in lands unblest with the light of the Gospel. 

A century earlier than the period to which reference is here 
made, one of the great Missionary institutions in the Church of 
England—that for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign 
Parts—was organized. Through all the subsequent years, down 
to the time when the American colonies became an independent 
nation, that Society extended its fostering care and support to 
many parishes in this country. For its noble efforts, our Church 
is indebted in an amount which cannot be reckoned. 

The example thus shown by that Society was, moreover, we 
may not doubt, among the influences which begot Missionary 
life in the Church, which resulted in the formation of the Society 
whose early history is set forth in the following pages.* 


* The noble work done by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel is 
the subject of the following remarks in the first Address to the Church of the 
Board of Directors of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, after the 
organization of that Society, in 1821. The Address was prepared by Bishop 
White. 


8 General Missionary Society. 1814, 


At the beginning of the present century another great insti-. 
tution was formed in the Church of England, viz., “ The Church 
Missionary Society,” which, from comparatively small beginnings 
has grown into an establishment of vast proportions, receiving 
and disbursing annually in various parts of the Missionary field 
the sum of nearly $1,000,000. 

Early in the history of that Society we find a deep interest 
felt by officers connected therewith, in the incipient thought and 
desire to which some of our fathers gave expression to the effect 
that we, too, might be co-workers in the great enterprise of ex- 
tending in the world Christ’s precious Gospel. This was a 
subject of correspondence between Bishop White and Bishop 
Griswold, of our Church, and the Rey. J osiah Pratt, Secretary 
of the Gharsl Missionary Society. 


“ We stand in a relation to our brethren in the new States, not unlike to 
that which, before the Revolution, the Episcopal population in the Atlantic 
provinces stood to their parent Church in England. What was then the conduct 
of that Church toward the forefathers of those who are now invited to imitate 
them in their beneficence? It was, that she extended her fostering care to her 
sons in their migration to the then uncultivated wilderness of the New World, 
and that she organized a Society in which the prelates took the lead, being sus- 

tained by the most distinguished of the Clergy and of the Laity over the whole 
realm. 

“Although their aids were discontinued withithe acknowledgment of the 
independence of this country,a limitation to which they were restricted by the 
conditions of their charter, yet the good achieved by them is felt in its conse- 
quences to the present day. To provinces planted by members of the Estab- 
lished Church they extended no aid, nor was there occasion for any, there be- 
ing provision made in them by legislative assessment. But in the provinces. 
in which the Episcopal portion of the population was thin, and other forms of 
profession prevalent, we should at this time be destitute of the means of wor- 
shipping God agreeably to the dictates of our consciences, or rather, there 
would have been long since lost all the traces of the peculiar institutions of 
our Apostolic Church, had it not been for the fostering care of the said venera- 
ble body, and for the expense to which the members of our Communion in 
the parent land voluntarily subjected themselves. The time is come when 
gratitude and honor, in concurrence with zeal for what we conceive to be the 
truths of Scripture, urge us to repay the benefit, not to the bestowers of it, 
who neither claim nor stand in need of a return, but by the supply of the spir- 
itual wants of those who have migrated from our soil, as our fathers migrated 
from the land of their nativity, and who would, doubtless, have been objects 
of the beneficence of the Church, which is our common parent, but for the sev- 
erance which has taken place in the course of Divine Providence. 


RT. REV. BISHOP GRISWOLD. 


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1814, 15. Early Movements and Documents. 9 


In 1815, at the close of the war with England, began this 
friendly greetings in a correspondence opened that year by Mr. 
Pratt with Bishop Griswold, and other leading members of the 
Episcopal Church in the United States, chiefly Bishops. These 
letters, however, found the Bishop already astir—his heart 
aglow with zeal for the Missionary cause, which had found 
remarkable expression in the charge addressed by him to 
the Clergy in the Eastern Diocese, September 28, 1814. In the 
following extract from that charge the trumpet gives no uncer- 
tain sound : | 

“Ts it not a fact that we place improper reliance upon our 
orthodoxy, as supposing that truth will spread of itself and bear 
away the prize, while others, on a worse foundation, by using bet- 
ter diligence, build with more rapidity? Tow is it to be lament- 
ed that knowledge and zeal, which God has formed together, 
should so often by man be put asunder ? 

“Tf we would maintain that rank among the champions of the 
cross, to which we think ourselves entitled, let us not rely on the 
paper arms of canons, creeds, and articles, but put on the whole 
armor of God; let us press forward amidst the perils of the holy 
warfare, the first in labors, or not the first in fame. . . . Let 
us wake out of this sleep. It is time that this too just reproach 
of indolence should be taken away from our Church, and that we, 
who profess the purest faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, should no 
longer be the coldest in zeal for enlarging the borders of His 
Kingdom. It is time that we show our faith by our works. Is 
it not our duty to impart the bread of this life to the hungry ? 
And is it less the duty of Christians to make known the will of 
God to the ignorant, and to rescue thoughtless sinners from mis- 
ery and shame? Was the command of Christ to preach Iis 
Gospel to every creature limited to the first apostles? Tas the 
merciful Saviour no love, no grace, no concern for sinners at the 
present day? Is it not the duty, still, of every minister and cy- 
ery Christian, according to his means and opportunities, to sound 
abroad these tidings of salvation? Was it necessary for the first 
disciples to labor so abundantly in word and doctrine? must they 
encounter perils by land and perils by water; be instant im sea- 
son and out of season; boldly withstand persecution, flames, and 


10 Early Movements and Documents. 1814, 15. 


death ; and reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all long suffering ; 
and is it now become of so little concern; are the souls of men 
now so worthless, and their salvation of so small account as to 
give us no anxiety or solicitude, as not to be worth the sacrifice 
of afew hours from the year, or a few pence from our abundance 4 
‘Tell it not in Gath!’ Why did our blessed Saviour suffer 
such indignities and the cruel death of the cross; why with such 
awakening concern send His Gospel to all the nations of the 
earth; to what purpose were all the labors and sufferings and 
martyrdom of apostles, and evangelists, and prophets, except it 
be a matter of the utmost importance that men should hear and 
believe the Gospel—except it be an indispensable duty and most 
benevolent work in all Christians to impart to mankind the knowl- 
edge and the means of salvation ?” 

The charge from which the foregoing extracts are taken was 
not published until. more than a year after its delivery to the 
Convention, and when published was accompanied by a pasto- 
ral letter in which the Bishop labors most earnestly and affection- 
ately to enforce the teachings of his charge to the Clergy, and 
invokes most heartily the codperation of the Laity in the work of 
Missions.. In this letter the Bishop, after speaking of the disas- 
ter which may be expected from want of interest in the Mission- 
ary cause, says: ‘ But, beloved, we are persuaded better things 
of you—though we thus speak. We are persuaded that this 
apparent indifference to missionary labors is not from want of 
love to the Redeemer’s kingdom; we believe that you possess 
both the desire and the means of promoting its prosperity. Your 
serious attention has not been awakened to the importance of the 
subject. Itis but recently, if it indeed may be now said; that 
Protestants have been generally and much engaged in this work. 
Too just has been the censure cast upon us all by the Church 
of Rome, that, while we professed a purer faith and more ar- 
dent zeal for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the burden of propa- 
gating it among the heathen was left to them. It is a reproach 
that we must bear in common, with the exception of the Mora- 
vian brethren, whose zeal and persevering labors to convert the 
heathen are above all praise.” 

The author of the pastoral adds the following: 


1816, 17. Early Movements and Documents. 11 


“We may add, also, the exceptions of two ancient and very 
respectable Societies in England, by members of the Established 
Church—the one for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 
and the other for Promoting Christian Knowledge, which have 
labored more than a century with honor and much usefulness. To 
the former, for its fostering care of our churches in this country, 
we are under the deepest obligations of gratitude and affection.” 

We have made the foregoing somewhat copious extracts from 
the charge and pastoral of this venerable father in the Church in 
this country, because these papers are among the earliest expres- 
sions of interest in our Church in the cause of Missions, and are 
intimately associated with the first movements toward the for- 
mation of a General Missionary Society in the Church. 

We have already referred to the correspondence of the Sec- 
retary of the Church Missionary Society of England with the 
Bishops of the Church in the United States. The object of this 
correspondence was to induce the codperation of the Church in 
this country in the foreign missionary work. To the letters of 
the Rev. Secretary, Bishop Griswold, as we said, replied, and ina 
letter dated July 18, 1816, enclosed a copy of the pastoral letter 
and charge mentioned above. The Bishop, in November of the 
same year, addressed another letter to Mr. Pratt, and in that let- 
ter, it is believed, brought to the notice of the Church Mission- 
ary Society a young candidate for Missionary service, the Rey. 
Joseph R. Andrus, belonging to the Eastern Diocese, proposing 
that he should be sent by the Church Missionary Society as a 
missionary to the heathen. 

Notice of this fact appears in the Church Missionary Regis- 
ter for 1817. , 

It was at first proposed ‘by the Church Missionary Society to 
send Mr. Andrus, with other missionaries, to Ceylon. Other 
counsels, however, prevailed, and in a letter dated London, July 
31, 1817, Mr. Pratt writes : 


“The committee have thought that the most effectual way of 
raising the missionary zeal in America would be the formation of a 
Church Missionary Society in the Episcopal Church of the United 
States, which, however small in its beginnings, might ultimately so 
increase as to produce the most extensive good. 


12 The Lev Joseph R. Andrus. 1820. 


“Should the formation of an American Episcopal Missionary 
Society be accomplished, the Committee of the Church Missionary 
Society authorize you to draw on me for the sum of £200, to en- 
courage the contributions of the friends of the Episcopal Church 
and of Christianity at large.* , 

* In this case Mr. Andrus had better be sent to Ceylon under 
the proposed Society, and be instructed to codperate with such of 
our missionaries as may be in that island, 

“T need only, in conclusion, remark, that after much experience 
we have invariably found that endeavors to excite and foster a mis- 
slonary spirit at home have not only succeeded in their immediate 
objects, but have been of great collateral good to the parties them- 
selves; a spirit of piety has been fostered and increased; the 
friends of religion, till then little acquainted with each other, have 
been brought tooeunees domestic charities have been greatly en- 
larged; and we have all felt the truth of the declaration, ‘ theres is 
that scattereth and yet increaseth.’”’ 


THE REV. JOSEPH R. ANDRUS. 


From the above record it would appear that Mr. Andrus was 
the first of the Clergy of our Church to offer himself for foreign 
missionary work. All honor to his memory, and thanks to God 
for this willing devotion on the part of [is servant. His offer 
was one of the links in the chain which led to the formation of 
a General Missionary Society. In regard to this good brother we 
anticipate the due order of record, and mention here that under 
date of Nov. 16, 1820, Bishop Griswold writes to Secretary Pratt : 


“Mr. Andrus, whose zeal in the good cause is in no degree abat- 


* Under date of July 2, 1821, Secretary Pratt wrote to Bishop Griswold as 
follows: “ Weare apprised of the formation of the Protestant Episcopal Mis- 
sionary Society in the United States for Foreign and Domestic Missions by Bishop 
White and Mr. Boyd, and we have already communicated to them the con- 
gratulations of our Committee on this auspicious event. 

“ Our Committce will have much pleasure in affording to your newly-formed 
Society that friendly aid which was offered in my letter to you of July the 31st, 
1817. I write by this post to Mr. Boyd (the Secretary of the Domestic and For- 
eion Missionary Society), to apprise him that he is authorized to draw on me 
for £200 sterling to promote the effective establishment of the Society,” 


: wer. 


1820. Letters and Documents. 13 


ed, has been engaged as a missionary and agent for the Coloniza- 
tion Society on the coast of Africa, for which field of labor he sey- 
eral weeks since departed. His labors, we trust, will be much aided 
and more useful by being conducted in concert with those of your 
Missionaries on the coast.” 


From the records of the American Colonization Society, it 
would appear that the Rev. Mr. Andrus, probably after pursuing 
an agency in this country for a time, embarked for West Africa 
in the beginning of the year 1821, in the brig Nautilus, and ar- 
rived at Sierra Leone on the 9th of March. He subsequently 
visited the Bassa Country and returned to Sierra Leone ; the se- 
quel of his history is found in the following record in the Report 
of the Colonization Society in 1822; 


“The Rev. Joseph R. Andrus, the first agent of the American 
Colonization Society, whose devotion to its interests and labors in 
its service had been marked with singular disinterestedness and 
integrity, after a short illness, and when it was supposed he had 
overcome the violence of the disease, suddenly died on the 27th 
of July.” 


From this digression we turn back to note the progress of 
events toward the formation of a General Missionary Society. 

At the beginning of the correspondence of the Secretary of 
the Church Missionary Society, of England, with the Bishops of 
the Church in the United States, various missionary papers, relating 
to the work of that Society, accompanied the Secretary’s letters. 

These letters and documents drew forth replies from Bishop 
White, who also manifested a lively interest in the subject of 
missions. In his own city, Philadelphia, two Missionary Socie- 
ties had been formed several years before, one for missionary 
work within the Diocese of Pennsylvania, and one whose endeav- 
ors were to be extended to new States westward of Pennsyl- 
vania. These are referred to in a letter addressed by Bishop 
White to Secretary Pratt, under date, Philadelphia, June 29, 
1818, from which the following extracts are taken ; 


“Rev’p Sir :—I received your two favors of Sept., 1817, and 
Feb. 6, 1818, and with the latter the parcel of publications to which, 
as I suppose, they both refer. For these interesting documents I 


14 Organization Attempted. 1820. 


present my grateful acknowledgments to the Church Missionary 
Society, It appears, from their Report of the last year, that there 
were received from me the Reports* of the two Societies instituted 
IDRLHISsChty e  S . 

“T have not been inattentive to the suggestion of the former of 
your letters now acknowledged. A Committee of our Missionary 
Society have digested a plan for the organization of an institution 
(General Missionary Society) under the authority of our Church, 
throughout the Union, to the effect stated. 

“This is a subject of considerable difficulty, owing to there not 
being with us a place of habitual resort of the same persons from 
different parts of our combined Republic, as with you from the 
different counties of your United Kingdom. At any rate, the work 
must be slow. Still I cherish the hope of its being accomplished, 
and have had some correspondence with Bishop Griswold.” 


ATTEMPTED FORMATION OF A GENERAL MIS- 
SIONARY SOCIETY. 

Under the holy inspiration of God’s good Spirit these vener- 
able Bishops, White and. Griswold, and other devout and holy. 
men, looked for several years for the day when the Church 
should herein vindicate its character as an Apostolic Church, by 
following the example of the Apostles, who,in obedience to the 
command of Christ, “ went everywhere preaching the Gospel of 
the Kingdom.” They waited in earnest expectation for the time 
when the Church should assume its noble prerogative and 
bounden duty of spreading abroad throughout the world the 
saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. 


* The Bishop’s letter, which accompanied these Reports, is dated Phila- 
delphia, Dec. 10, 1816, and is published in full in the English Church Missionary 
Register, for 1817, p. 60. It was in answer to the letter of the Rev. Secretary 
of that Society, dated August 19,1815. In this reply, Bishop White gives 
particulars of the condition of the Church in his Diocese, makes mention cf 
the formation of the two Missionary Societies, one of which, viz., that for Mig- 
sions beyond the borders of Pennsylvania, had been organized a few weeks cnly 
prior to the date of the Bishop’s letter. In the same letter the Bishop makes 
this interesting remark: “Iwas desirous of transmitting to you a series of 
Reports of our Bible Society instituted in this city at the close of the year 
1809, which was the first in the United States.” 


1820. Organization Attempted. 15 
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Their hope in this regard was not disappointed. 

In May, 1820, the General Convention met in St. James’s 
Church, Philadelphia, and continued its sessions from the 16th to 
the 24th of that month; the whole Episcopal Body (nine Bishops) 


NotTe.—As a part of the history of the early movements toward the organ- 
ization of a General Missionary Society of the Church, it is proper here to state 
that, in 1820, a pamphlet was published which bears the following title: 


“Report of a Committee appointed by the Managers of the Protestant 
Episcopal Missionary Society of Pennsylvania, on the subject of a Gencral 
Missionary Society for Foreign and Domestic Missions ; which will be proposed 
for the consideration of the next General Convention, to sit in this city (Phila- 
delphia) on the 16th of May next.” 


We give the following extracts: 


“Imbibing the sentiments which have so often been expressed by the mem- 
bers of this Board, and which they have reason to believe are reciprocated, to a 
very considerable extent, by pious Episcopalians throughout the United States, 
your Committee have regarded the subject proposed for their consideration as 
one of primary importance. Whether we consider the benefits which will 
result to those whose religious condition it is intended to improve, or the influ- 
ence which Missionary exertion will have upon the minds of such as are 
engaged therein, we cannot but regard the present proposition to establish a 
General Missionary Society as deeply affecting the moral and spiritual condition 
of a large portion of our fellow creatures; and at the same time involving the 
best interests and most valued reputation of the Church to which we belong. 

“While Christians of every name are already marshalled for the conflict 
under their respective leaders, and prepared to engage with the powers of 
darkness, we cannot see the American Episcopal Church indifferent in this great 
enterprise, without painful and boding regret. The armies of the faithful are 
on their march, determined to subdue the influence and subvert the dominion 
of the god of this world; the idols of the nations are falling before the ark of 
the Lord; temples, once dedicated to the impure worship of imaginary deities, 
are resounding with the notes of Evangelical praise, and Satan is seen ‘as 
lightning fall from heaven.’ 

“The time has come when every believer should awake to the importance 
of converting his fellow creatures to the Gospel of Christ. Our brethren, 
called by the same national name, enjoying the same civil immunitics, and 
deprived of the means of religious instruction, call upon us for assistance, and 
the heathen, spiritually dead and buried in the grave of ignorance, supcrsti- 
tion, and vice, though they are too well pleased with their bondage to ask for 
assistance, yet have a claim upon our exertion which we ought, without hesita- 
tion, to acknowledge. 

“ There are two fields of operation in which the proposed Missionary Society 
might labor with great prospect of success: those parts of our own country 


16 Organization Attempted. 1820. 


being present, with the exception of Bishop Chase; the now vener- 
able and beloved Dr. Muhlenberg being the Secretary of that Body. 

Among the acts which distinguished this meeting of the 
General Convention was the formation of a General Missionary 


where the means of grace are not enjoyed, and the- pagan nations scattered 
over a large proportion of the Eastern Continent. 

“In the event of forming such an institution as that suggested, it would 
be proper to unite the two objects, inasmuch as thereby we should be able to be 
more extensively useful, Yet your Committee cannot but regard the subject 
of Foreign Missions as peculiarly interesting at this time. 

“Tn our own country much has been already done by Societies formed in 
several of the States toward the supply of those stations which have presented 
themselves; and we confidently rely upon their aid in granting future relief. 
Indeed, many difficulties would occur in so regulating the operations of a 
General Society as not to interfere with the well-directed labors of diocesan 
associations. But, in relation to the heathen, there is nothing to oppose our 
progress; our aid is solicited by those already engaged in the work, and there 
will be no danger of interference. * 5 x * # 

“We stand alone in our indifference and inattention to the great and suc- 
cessful efforts which are making by Christians for the conversion of the heathen 
world. The future historian of the Church of Christ will reg rd the present 
as a period peculiarly marked by unexampled endeavors for the propagation of 
the Gospel. The beginning of the nineteenth century will probably be referred 
to by millions of unborn believers as the dawn of that light which will have 
visited them. Parents recovered from the dominion of Satan, and brought out 
of darkness into the marvellous light of the Gospel, will delight to tell their 
children of the way of their deliverance, and to recount the labors of those by 
whose instrumentality it was effected. But,if we remain spectators only, while 
this work is progressing, and take no part in the active labors of the day; when 
the harvest is gathered we will not be permitted to claim any share to our- 
selves ; but, in the recollection of ages, will be regarded as those ‘who came not 
to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty” * * 

“Your Committee think it proper, in concluding their Report, to take notice 
of one solitary objection which has been urged against the measure now under 
consideration. 

“Jt is said that we should reserve all our means and concentrate all our 
exertion in order the more effectually to build up our own Church in those 
parts where it is already established. Your Committee would deprecate any 
measure which they supposed would in any way interfere with the best inter- 
ests of that Church of which we all are members. But they must confess 
themselves ignorant of the manner in which the proposed Society can retard 
the progress of our valued institutions. It is not found that liberality restrains 
the influence of generous feelings, or that the springs and fountains of charity 
are dried up by taking a portion from their remote streams. The Bible teaches 
us that the ‘liberal man deviseth liberal things’ and we are inclined to the 


1820. Orgamezation Attempted. 17 


Society. This fact is thus recorded in Bishop White’s “ Memoirs 
of the Protestant Episcopal Church ” : 


“ There was proposed by the House of Clerical and Lay Depu- 
ties, and concurred in by the Bishops, a Constitution of a Missionary 
Society for Foreign and Domestic Missions, which became inefficient 
from an irregularity in the choice of the Trustees. The Society 
was located in the city of Philadelphia, and the members there 
resident, after frequent consultations, did not think themselves 
authorized to proceed. The error resulted from the press of business 
on the last day of the Session.” 


This is further explained in a note, as follows: 


“Of all the business which has come before our General Conventions, the 
branch of it which related to a Missionary Society was most mismanaged. 
_ That, in the hurry of the last day of the Session, there should have been over- 

sights, was not so wonderful as that the most palpable should be made by 
gentlemen with whom the subject had been contemplated for some months 
before, and who have, unfortunately, brought the whole scheme under what 
the author thinks a mistaken suspicion of its being an intended engine against 
the Institutions of our Church. There were these two supposed grounds of 
suspicion. Although the Constitution provided that the Trustees should be 
chosen by the Convention, it was so managed that the Bishops had no share in 
the choice. They were also made the President and Vice-Presidents of a 
Society existing in idea only, and composed of all the contributors, who could 
never be constitutionally assembled; while in the efficient body, that of the 
Trustees, there was no provision for the Presidency, or even the membership 
of a Bishop, and no such person, if permitted to be present, could claim a 
right to vote or to speak in their proceedings. 

“When the Trustees, so imperfectly appointed, assembled on the business, 
they saw the difficulties with which they were clogged, and that a Society so 
constituted would not receive the support of the Church generally. Never- 
theless, being aware of the responsibility attached to the fall of the design, they 


opinion that the more Christians become engaged in the various operations hy which 
the kingdom of their Redeemer is enlarged, the more their munificence will abound.”’ 

This paper, it is understood, was prepared by the Rev. Mr. Kemper, the Rev. Mr. 
Muhlenberg, and the Rev. Mr. Boyd. 

It is proper to add, also, the following extract from Bishop Griswold’s letter to 
the Rey. Secretary Pratt, in relation to the organization of the Protestant Episcopal 
Missionary Society for Foreign and Domestic Missions: 

“* After the meeting of our Gencral Convention, in May last, I wrote with intention of giving 
you advice of what we had done; but, through some negligence, the letter was not forwarded. 
Others wrote with the like intention, from whom probably you have learned that the Conven- 
tion then formed a Missionary Socicty, to be designated ‘The Protestant Episcopal Missionary 
Society in the United States for Foreign and Domestic Missions.’ In compliance with the 
wishes of some individuals, Domestic Missions are embraced, but the chicf object of its pro- 
moters is the propagating the Gospel in foreign parts.” 


2 


18 Organization Attempted. 1820. 


devised ways in which, with the advice of the major number of the Eishops, 
they consented to give a beginning to the enterprise, looking to the next Con- 
vention for the sanctioning of their doingsand forthesupply of the manifest 
defects. This sanction was not obtained, and, accordingly, there has been a 
suspension of the scheme. The author attended all the meetings of the Trus- 
tees, and bears witness at once to their zeal for the object and to their concern 
for the order and good government of the Church.” 


The next meeting of the General Convention was a special 


Nore.—In addition to what is said above touching the action of the General 
Convention, in 182C, for the formation of a General Missionary Society, it is: 
thought well to state that the title then proposed was “ 7’he Protestant Hpisco-' 
pal Missionary Society in the United States for Forcign and Domestic Missions.” 

At a special meeting of the General Convention, in 1821, a Report was made 
on behalf of the Managers, from which the following extract is taken: 


“ At an early period, the managers appointed a committee to devise a plan 
by which the designs of the Convention might most effectually be attained. 
After due deliberation upon the subject, it was thought advisable to prepare an 
address to the members of the Church, informing them of the measures which 
had been adopted, urging by suitable considerations the important duty of 
sending the Gospel to the destitute, and requesting their codperation by the 
formation of auxiliary societies and associations. Such an address was pre- 
pared, and printed in one or two periodical publications, when it was discovered 
that, by reason of an informality in the mode of our appointment, we had been 
acting without authority.” 

This report is signed : “Joun READ, President. 
“R. 8. Smiru, Secretary.” 


A copy of the Address above mentioned is now before us. To itis ete 
a list of the BoARD of MANAGERS, as follows: 


Rev. Thomas Carlile, Mass., Rev. Jackson Kemper, Philadelphia, 
Nathaniel S. Wheaton, Conn., George Boyd, 
James Milnor, D.pD., N. Y., Wm. Aug. Muhlenberg, “ 
Abiel Carter, N. J., Mr. Richard Dale, be 
Richard D. Hall, Del., Charles N. Bancker, i 
William Wilmer, p.p., D. C., Stephen North, 
William E. Wyatt, p. D., Md., John Read, 
J. P. K. Henshaw, M aa John Claxton, ‘e 
William Meade, Va., Charles Wheeler, ¢ 

Hon. Bushrod Washington, Va; Israel Kinsman, yi 

Rey. Gregory T. Bedell, Ne-., Hugh De Haven, Jr., ss 
Christ’r E. Gadsden, D.D. '8.C., Richard 8S. Smith, ¥ 


Corresponding Secretary, Rev. George Boyd. fecording Secretary, Richard 8. Smith. 
Treasurer, Stephen North. 

These persons, together with the Rt. Rev. Wm. White, p.p., President, and 
Bishops Hobart, Griswold, Moore, Kemp, Croes, Bowen, Chase, and Brownell, 
Vice-Presidents, were the officers of the Society—which failed and was super- 
seded by the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society—organized by the Gen- 
eral Convention, in 1821. 


1821. — Organization Lffected. 19 


meeting, held in St. Peter’s Church, Philadelphia, in 1821, from 
October 30th to November the 3d, inclusive. 

That which was designed by the last Chaveition, viz., the 
formation of a General Missionary Society, but which failed for 
the reasons above given, was accomplished at this. 

The House of Bishops proposed the following Constitution, 
which was adopted by the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies, 
as follows: 


CONSTITUTION 
OF THE 


DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE 
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 


Article I, 


This Institution shall be denominated the Domestic and Foreign 
Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the 
United States of America. 

Article II. 


It shall be composed of the Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church, and of the members of the House of Clerical and Lay 
Deputies of the General Convention of said Church, for the time 
being ; and of such other persons as shall contribute, by subscrip- 
tion, three dollars, or more, annually, to the objects of the Institu- 
tion, during the continuance of such contributions; and of such as 
shall contribute at once thirty dollars, which contribution shall con- 
stitute them members for life. 

Members who pay fifty dollars on subscribing shall be denomi- 
nated patrons of the Society. 

It shall be the privilege of the subscribers to designate on their 
subscriptions to which of the objects, Domestic or Foreign, they 
desire their contributions to be applied. If no specification be 
made, the Board of Directors may apply them to either, or both, at 
their discretion. 

Article III. 

The Society shall meet triennially at the place in which the 

General Convention shall hold its session. The time of meeting 


20 Constitution. 1821. 


shall be on the first day of the session, at five o’clock p.m. A 
sermon shall be preached, and a collection made in aid of the funds 
of the Society, at such time during the session of the Convention as 
may be determined at the preceding meeting; the preacher to be 
eebpanet by the House of Bishops. 


Article IV. 


The Presiding Bishop of this Church shall be President of the 
Society; the other Bishops, according to seniority, Vice-Presidents. 
There shall be a Secretary, and twenty-four Directors, ne shall be 
chosen by ballot, at each meeting. 


Article V. 


The Directors, together with the President, Vice-Presidents, and 
Patrons of the Society—-who shall, ex officio, be Directors—shall 
compose a body to be denominated the Board of Directors of the 
“Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church in the United States of America.” They shall 
meet annually in the city of Philadelphia, except in the year of the 
meeting of the General Convention, when they shall assemble at 
the place of the meeting thereof. Nine members of the Board of 
Directors shall be necessary to constitute a quorum to do business. 

The meeting of the Board of Directors shall always be opened 
by using a form of prayer, consisting of a special Collect, to be 
prepared by the Presiding Bishop, and one or more Collects from the 
liturgy. 


Article V1. 


At the annual meetings, all missionary stations, appointments of 
missionaries, and appropriations of money, and all by-laws necessary 
for their own government, and for conducting the affairs of the 
missions, shall be made; provided that all appointments of mission- 
aries shall be with the approbation of the bishops present. Special 
meetings may be called by the President, or by one of the Vice- 
Presidents, as often as may be necessary to carry into effect the 
resolutions adopted at the annual meetings of the Board, and to fill 
up the vacancies that may occur among missionaries, either on 
account of those who had been appointed declining to serve, or 
from the resignation or death of others; and if such power shall be 
confided to, them at the preceding annual meeting of the Board, to 


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fix new missionary stations and to appoint a new missionary or mis- 
sionaries as circumstance may require, the appointment so made 
to be with the approbation of the bishop or bishops present. 
Whenever missionaries are appointed and their stations fixed; pro- 
vision shall be made for their support, out of the appropriation for 
the year, at the annual meeting of the Board. At such special 
‘meetings, seven! members, including the President or one of the 
Vice-Presidents, shall be a quorum to transact business. 

The Board of ‘Directors, whether at their annual or special 
meetings, may appoint such Committees as may be necessary or 
useful. 


Article VIL. 


There shall be annually appointed, by the Board of Directors, a 
Treasurer and two members of the Society, who together shall be 
termed Trustees of the Permanent Fund. 

The Treasurer shall receive all contributions which shall be made 
to the Society, and enter them in detail, distinguishing between 
what may be contributed for domestic and what for foreign pur- 
poses, if any such distinctions should be made, and present a state- 
ment of his accounts annually, or oftener if required, to the Board 
of Directors. He shall not pay moneys unless on an order from the 
Board, signed by the President, or, in his absence, by the Senior 
Vice-President, who may attend the meeting when such order is 
given, 

Twenty per cent. of all moneys which shall be contributed to 
earry into effect the objects of the institution, shall be vested by 
the Trustees, in their own name, as officers of the Society, in some 
safe and productive stock, to constitute a permanent fund: The 
residue of the contributions, with the interest arising from the per- 
manent fund, shall be appropriated to the objects for which the 
Society is formed. 


Article VIII. 


The Board of Directors, at their annual meeting, shall take such 
measures as they may deem proper to establish auxiliary societies in 
any diocese with the advice and consent of the bishop of the same, 
to secure patronage, and to enlarge the funds of the institution. The 
bishop of every diocese shall be President of the auxiliary societies 
organized within it. 


22 Constitution and By-Laws. 1821. 


Article IX. 


In any diocese where there is a bishop or an ecclesiastical body 
duly constituted under the authority of the convention of the same, 
for missionary purposes, aid may be given in money; but the ap- 
pointment of the missionary shall rest with the bishop or ecclesias- 
tical body aforesaid. He shall act under their direction, and 
shall render to them a report of his proceedings, copies of which 
shall be forwarded to this Society. ; 


Article X., 


The Board of Directors shall, at any meeting of the Society, 
present a detailed report of their proceedings, which, if approved 
and adopted by the Society, shall on the next day be presented by 
their President to the General Convention as the Report of the 
Society. 

Article XI. 


Alterations of the constitution may be proposed either by the 
Society or by the General Convention, at their respective triennial 
meetings; but no proposed alteration shall be adopted unless by 
the concurrent vote of the two bodies. 


Article XII. 


It is recommended to every member of this Society to pray to 
Almighty God for His blessing upon its design, under the full con- 
viction that unless He direct us in all our doings with His most 
gracious favor, and further us with His continual help, we cannot 
reasonably hope either to procure suitable persons to act as mis- 
sionaries or expect that their endeavors will be successful. 


BY-LAWS. 


I. The annual meeting of the Board of Directors shall be on the 
Thursday following the third Tuesday in May. 

II. The Treasurer shall keep a list of all the subscribers to the 
Society, and shall produce the same at the elections of the Society. 


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1821. By-Laws. . 23 


III. There shall be two Secretaries elected by the Board, one to 
be designated the “ OT Secretary,” and the other the “ Cor: 
dias Secretary.” 

IV. It shall be the AiGho of the Recording Secretary to keep the 
records and minutes of the Board of Directors, and to give proper 
and timely notice of all meetings. 

_Y. It shall be the duty of the Corresponding Secre ave to attend 
to the correspondence of the Board of Directors, and to hold it 
always subject to their inspection, and to report at every meeting of 
the Board the letters and communications he may have received, 
and copies of the letters written by him. 

VI. The President of the Society and the other bishops, accord- 
ing to seniority, shall preside at the meetings of the Board. The 
presiding officer shall preserve order, and decide on all questions of 
order, subject to an appeal to the Board, and shall appoint all 
committees, unless the Board direct otherwise. 

VI. There shall be appointed annually by the Board of Directors, 
by ballot, a committee of eight persons, of whom the President of 
the Society and the Corresponding Secretary shall be ex-officio, two 
to be denominated the Executive Committee, whose duty it shall be 
to recommend to the Board proper places and stations for their 
attention, to recommend suitable’ characters to be employed as 
missionaries, to attend to the comfort of missionaries, to diffuse 
intelligence for the purpose of exciting an interest in favor of the 
Society, and generally to execute the resolutions of the Board in 
relation to missions and missionaries. 

They shall keep minutes of their transactions, and lay the same 
before the Board at every meeting. 


VIII. In Renation to Missionarirs. 


SECTION 1. They shall be governed by the canons and liturgy of 
this Church in the performance of all the offices of their ministry. 

Sec. 2. They shall keep a constant and regular correspondence 
with the Board of Directors, through the Corresponding Secretary. 

Sec. 38. They shall keép a journal of all their proceedings, and 
shall transmit a copy of the same to the Corresponding Secretary at 
least once in every three months. 

Sec. 4. All missionaries in the service of the Society, who shall 
be out of the diocesan jurisdiction of any particular bishop, shall be 


O4 Officers of the Society. 1821, 


considered as under the diocesan authority of the President of the 
Society. a 

Sec. 5. If there should be charges against any missionary of this 
Society requiring ecclesiastical investigation, the President may com- 
mit the process to any bishop more conveniently resident for in- 
quiry, and the sentence of such bishop, after trial conducted agree- 
ably to the forms provided in his diocese, and transmitted to the 
President of this Society, shall be final. 


Thus it is seen that, although this Constitution was subse- 
quently changed under a new. order adopted by the General 
Convention in 1835, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Soci- 
ety has from the beginning been a Church institution. 


The proceedings of the first triennial meeting of the Society, 
held in St. Paul’s Church, Philadelphia, May 20, 1828, furnish 
the following list of officers: * | 


OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. 


President : 
Xt. Rev. William White, p.». 


Vice Presidents : 


Rt. Rev. John H. Hobart, v.p.,; 
Alexander V. Griswold, p.p., 
Richard Channing Moore, p.p., 
James Kemp, pD.Dp., 
John Croes, pD.D., 
Nathaniel Bowen, p.p., 
Philander Chase, p.p., 
Thomas Church Brownell, p.p., 
John 8. Ravenscroft, p.p. 


*Itis to be regretted that no list of persons present is given in the pub- 
lished proceedings. Bishop White presided, and among those present were 
Rey, B. T. Onderdonk, Rev. Dr. Milnor, Rev. Mr. Boyd, Rev. Mr. Kemper, 
and I’, Key, Esq. 


1821, . Officers of the Society. 25 


Patrons : 


Hion. John C. Herbert, 
Francis 8. Key, Esq., 
Richard Dale, Esq., 

Tion. John Jay, 

Alexander C. Magruder, Esq., 
Peter IXeen, Esq., 

Rev. Frederick Beasley, p.p., 
Samuel H. Turner, p.p., 
James Milnor, p.p., 
John P. K. Henshaw, 
Joseph R. Walker, 
William Richmond, 

_ Jackson Kemper, 
Benjamin Allen. 


Secretaries : 


Rev. George Boyd, 
John C, Pechin. 


Directors: 


Pennsylvania, Rev. J. Montgomery, 
William H. De Lancey, 
Gregory ‘T. Bedell, 
Mr. Thomas Hale, 
John Read, 
Charles N. Bancker, 
Henry Hollingsworth, 
Charles Wheeler, 
Hugh De Haven, Jr., 
James Nixon, 
Delaware, Rev. Ralph Williston, 
Maryland, Rev. William E. Wyatt, p.p., 
Bet ii. Rev. William H. Wilmer, p.p., 
Virginia, } William Meade, 
N. Carolina, Rev. Richard §. Mason, 
8. Carolina, © Rev, C. Hankel, 
Georgia, Rev. Hugh Smith, 
New Jersey, Rev. Gcorge Y. Morehouse, 
New York, tev. Benjamin T. Onderdonk, 


26 Report. of the Board of Derectors. 1821. 


Connecticut, Rev. Harry Croswell, 
Rhode Island, Rey. Salmon Wheaton, 


Mass., Rev. Samuel F. Jarvis, p.p., 
Vermont, Rev. George Leonard, 
Ohio, Rey. Samuel Johnston. 


Under the provision of the VIIth Article of the By-Laws, an 
Executive Committee had been chosen, consisting of the follow- 
ing persons : 

Rt. Rev. William White, p.p., ex-officio, 
Rey. Jackson Kemper, 
Rey. James Montgomery, 
tev. Benjamin Allen, : 
Rev. George Boyd, 
Richard Dale, Esq., 
John Read, Esq., 
Charles Wheeler, Esq., 


The sermon on the occasion above mentioned was preached 
by Bishop White, who took for his text the 10th and 11th verses 
of the 55th chapter of Isaiah,—“ For as the rain cometh down,” 
etc.—Subject, The spiritual kingdom of Christ—Prophecy con- 
cerning it—Its fulfilment—Suspension of its progress—Present 
prospects in reference to the subject. 


The Board of Directors of the Domestic and Foreign Mission- 
ary Society made their first Report to the Society, which was 
adopted, and by the Society presented to the General Convention 
then in session. The Report was approved by both Houses, and 
the printing of it ordered. This Report states that the meeting 
of the Board of Directors contemplated in the 11th (6th) Article 
of the Constitution was held in the vestry-room of St. James’s 
Church, Philadelphia, on the third Wednesday of November, 
1821; at this time several resolutions were adopted, and commit- 
tees appointed who were requested to make report at the annual 
meeting. An address was also now prepared, at the request of 
the Directors, by the Rt. Rev. Bishop White, President of the 
Society, and circulated throughout the United States. 


This address sets forth— 


1921. Report of the Board of Directors. oi 


First, The destitute condition of the Church after the Rev- 
olutionary war. 

Second, That in a large measure the destitution continues, 
while urgent calls for help come from the opening West. 

Third, The timely and all important aid which the Church 
in this country received, prior to the Revolution, from the Church 
of England, through the Society for the Propagation of the Gos- 
pel in Foreign Parts, should lead to similar sacrifice and devo- 
tion to meet the wants of our brethren in this land. 

Fourth, Encouragement found in the recent establishment 
of a general Theological Seminary for the training of men for 
the sacred ministry. 


The claims and interests of the Foreign Missionary work are 
set forth in the following extracts : 


“ While we represent in this important point of view the wants 
of the members of our own Church, we do not overlook the other 
branch of our trust; from which it may be gathered that the Con- 
vention contemplated the giving of a beginning to efforts, simulta- 
neous with those of other denominations of Christians, for the ex- 
tending of the light of the Gospel to the benighted heathen. There 
is no fact more remarkable on the face of the Bible than that the 
Gospel is to be preached to all nations ; this having been announced 
by the Saviour in person, and by His apostles after His crucifixion. 
Judging from what we know of the course of Providence, operating 
through the intervention of second causes, we are led to conclude 
that these predictions will be fulfilled by human endeavors, under 
the government of Divine grace. 

“Here opens on us a subject which cannot be contemplated with- 
out grief, on account of the inefficiency of measures formerly per- 
sued for the extending of the kingdom of the Redeemer; and espe- 
cially their contrariety to the beneficent spirit which it breathes. The 
sword and the cross have been displayed in unnatural alliance, in 
wars professedly made for the subjecting of nations to the sceptre 
of the Prince of Peace. The effect has been either the generating 
of enmity against a religion attempted to be obtruded by violence, 
or of the establishing of the same religion in name, but disfigured 
by corruptions subversive of the spirit of its institutions. It was 
not thus that the faith in Christ had been propagated, when, within 


28 Report of the Board of Directors. 1821. 


a few years after the apostles, its apologists appealed to the known 
fact that, independently of human policy or force, it had reached 
the utmost limits of the then known world. 

“ Of late years, under very different circumstances, and generally 
in a very different spirit from the above, there have been put forth 
endeavors for the conveying of the Gospel to heathen nations: it 
has been by presenting the books of Scripture in their different lan- 
guages, and by sending to them missionaries whose views are de- 
tached from all the concerns, alike of temporal sovereignties and of 
spiritual domination, interfering with civil duties, and who cannot 


‘have any other object than that of making of their converts the — 


subjects of ‘a kingdom not of this world.’ Who can calculate — 
the effects of this new plan for the evangelizing of the world? and 
who can tell whether it may not be expedient in the counsels of 
Divine wisdom, for the fulfilment of the promise to the Messiah, of 
‘giving Him the heathen for His inheritance, and the uttermost parts 
of the earth for His possession, or of hastening the time when, in 
the language of the New Testament, ‘the fulness of the Gentiles 
shall have come in?’ 

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“ But why should this be reckoned altogether a problem, when 
there has already begun and progressed a series of events pointing 
to the consummation so desirable ? Already the peaceful preaching 
of the Gospel has made inroads on the superstitions of Bramah 
and of Buddha, in Asia; already, in Africa, many of her sable 
children are assembled under pastors who break to them the bread 
of life; and already the uniting of religion and civilization has 
made the beginning of a rescue of the inhabitants of our western 
wilderness from the atrocities of their savage state, and of opening 
their eyes to a due esteem of the arts and the enjoyments of civilized 
life, under no circumstances, however, without a proportionate 
esteem for those truths, those precepts, and those promises which 
can be learned only from the Bible. 

“Tt isa remarkable fact, tending to sustain the sentiments which 
have been delivered, that there has lately appeared, in various 
countries, a zeal for missionary labors beyond anything of the same 
spirit smee the age of the first preaching of the Gospel. Many and 
great are the dangers to be encountered, and many and great are the 
privations to be submitted to in the prosecution of such a design; 
and yet the ardor, far from being damped by discouragement of this 


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sort, is on the increase. In the beginning, there may have been no 
unreasonable apprehension that the fire would expire, after a tran- 
sient blaze; but many years have attested, not only the sincerity, 
but the perseverance of the men who had thus devoted themselves 
to the going out into the highways and hedges of pagan idolatry, 
at the cost of encountering any hardships, and of being ever 
separated, in this world, from the endearing intercourses of kindred 
and early attachment. Is there not in this what may not improb- 
ably be an indication of the approach of the time when there shall 
be a verifying of the promise: ‘From the rising of the sun, even 
unto the going down of the same, My name shall be great among 
the Gentiles.’ ; 
“ a ok a ¥ a Xt 

“ We conclude, in the spirit of the conclusion of the Constitu- 
tion, by inviting all the members of our Church to put up the 
prayers there suggested for the blessing of God on the concern 
committed to their trust; not doubting that the effect of such a 
prayer, habitually put up to the throne of grace, will so interest the 
affections of the supplicants as to insure their contributing of 
reasonable portions of their substance for the accomplshing of so 
estimable an object of their desire. Especially, if such persons should 
have felt the check of the admonitions of the Gospel on their 
consciences, of its consolations under the various vicissitudes of life, 
and of the bright prospects which it opens beyond the darkness of 
the grave, they will cheerfully bestow their proportionate aids for 
the extending of those benefits to regions where they are now 
unknown; in the retaining’ of them in districts in which they are in 
danger of being lost in an increasing dissoluteness of manners; in 
short, in contributing to the reign of truth and righteousness, and 
thus leading on to the accomplishment of the object of the petition 
enjoined on us for daily use: ‘The doing of the will of Gop on 


earth, as it is done in heaven.’ ” 


The Board of Directors reported further :, 


That an annual meeting of ‘the Board of Directors was held 
at St. James’s Church (Philadelphia), on the 23d of May, 1822, 
when a Code of By-Laws was enacted. 

The 7th Article of this Code provided for the appointment 
of an Executive Committee. It reads as follows: 


30 Report of the Board of Durectors. 182. 


“There shall be appointed annually by the Board of Directors, 
by ballot, a committee of eight persons, of whom the President of 
the Society and the Corresponding Secretary shall be, ex-officio, 
two, to be denominated the Executive Committee, whose duty it 
shall be to recommend to the Board proper places and stations for 
their attention; to recommend suitable characters to be employed 
as missionaries; to attend to the comfort of missionaries; to diffuse 
intelligence for the purpose of exciting an interest in favor of the 
Society, and to generally execute the resolutions of the Board in rela- 
tion to Missions and Missionaries. ‘They shall keep minutes of their 
transactions, and lay the same before the Board at every meeting.” 


The names of the first Executive Committee have been given 
in connection with the list of officers of the Society. 


The Board of Directors submitted to the Society, as a part 
of their Report, the Report of the Executive Committee, in. which 
it was stated that the Committee held their first meeting on the 
first day of June, 1822, when measures were immediately taken 
to carry into effect the several resolutions adopted by the Board 
of Directors, at their annual meeting, held, as above stated, on 
the 23d of May, 1822. 


The Executive Committee go on to say that— 


“As the detailed proceedings of the Committee, in relation to 
several of these resolutions, will be presented in a subsequent part 
of this Report, it is thought expedient, at present, to take notice 
only of what was done under the following : 

‘* [tesolued, 'That the Corresponding Secretary address a letter to 
the Bishop, or where there is no Bishop, to the Standing Committee 
of each Diocese, requesting that such measures may be adopted 
therein as to the said Bishop or Committee may seem most expe- 
dient and proper, for raising contributions in aid of the funds of 
the Society ; and also requesting information whether the services 
of an agent of this Board in raising such contributions, or forming 
auxiliary Societies within that Diocese, would be approved by the 
Bishop or Standing Committee,” cte., ete. 


In compliance with this Resolution, letters were written to 


> 


1822. Report of the Board of Directors. 31 


the Bishops of the Church, and others, and called forth ag gees 
more or less encouraging. 

The Executive Committee, after giving extracts from these 
responses, go on to say, 


“Tt has been a dae object with the Committee, during the 
past year, rather to Selon than to attempt to occupy any nents 
ary ground. ‘The result of their labors will be presented under one 
or other of the following heads: 


1, Auxiliary Societies. 4. Of Publications. 
2. Of Agencies. 5. Of Appropriations, 
3. Of Missionary Stations, 6. Of Funds. 


Under the first head the Committee report the organization 
of eleven auxiliary Societies, viz. : 


One in Maryland, of which the Bishop of the Diocese, the 
Rt. Rev. James Kemp, p.p., was ex-officio Chairman. 

One in Lancaster, Pa., of which the Hon. Charles Smith was 
President, and the Rey. Wine A. Muhlenberg among the Vice- 
Presidents. 

One in Trinity Church, Easton, Pennsylvania, of which the 
Rey. John Rodney was President. 

The remaining eight were all Female Auxiliary Missionary 
Societies. 


Thus we find that, in that day, the associations of holy 


‘women composed more than two thirds of the auxiliaries to the 


Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Church. 

The Secretaries of the two Committees, Domestic and Foreign, 
have, within the last few months, conferred together for the adop- 
tion of plans to enlist the women of the Church, and band them 
together in united effort for the Missionary cause. The noble 
Christian women of our day will now see that the devout hearts 
of their sisters in the Church were active in their endeavors, fifty 
years ago, to the same great end. 

We. esteem it a Beis duty which we owe to those earnest 
workers for Christ and His Church, to record their names in this 
volume, with the earnest hope that to those of them who still 


32 Auxlary Societies. 1822, 23, 


survive, this record of the long past may afford comfort, and that : 


the evening of their days may be made bright by the light 
which comes through the opened way to the better land above. 


1. THE AUXILIARY FEMALE MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF ST. JOHN’S 
CHURCH, IN THE NORTHERN LIBERTIES, PHILADELPHIA. 


Formed August 26, 1822. 


OFFICERS. 


lst Directress—Mrs. E. Boyd. 

2d Directress—Mrs. 8. Davidson. 
Secretary—Mrs. C. Ogle. 
Treasurer—Miss D. W olbert. 

Managers—Mrs. EK. Sanders, Mrs. M. Thomas, Mrs. L. Foering, 
Mrs. M. Souder, Mrs. M. Brown, Mrs. 8. Coates, Miss M. Wolbert, 
Miss A. Ashburner, Miss M. Fennel, Miss 8. Hook, Miss §. Living- 
ston, Miss A. Alexander. 


2. THE EPISCOPAL FEMALE MISSIONARY SOCIETY IN THE BOROUGH 
OF CARLISLE, PA. 


Formed in November, 1822. 


OFFICERS. 
lst Directress—Mrs. A. Stiles. 
2d Directress—Mrs. A. Read. 
Secretary—Miss Mary Hamilton. 
Treasurer—-Mrs. Watts. 
Managers—Mrs. Veasy, Mrs. Foulks, Miss Mary Hamilton, Miss 
Haverstich. 


3. THE EPISCOPAL MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION OF ST. JOHN’S CHURCH, 
HUNTINGDON, PA. 


Formed in March, 1823. 


OFFICERS. 
lst Directress—Mrs. E. W. Shippen. 
2d Directress—Mrs. Jane McConnel. 
Treasurer—Mrs. Jane Dorland. 
Secretary—Mrs. Letitia N. Smith. 


ae 


9 


1823. Auwliary Societies. 33 


Managers—Mrs. Hildebrand, Mrs. F. Jackson, Mrs. Reed, Mrs. 
Maise, Mrs. Levy, Mrs. Ramsey, Miss E. B. Simpson, Miss M. G. 
Evans, Miss M. F. Allisson, Miss P. A. Elliott, Miss E. Brothersin, 
Miss E. Gwin. 


4, THE AUXILIARY FEMALE MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF BEAUFORT, 
SOUTH ‘CAROLINA. 


Formed in February, 1828. 


OFFICERS. 


1st Directress—Mrs. Ann Cuthbert. 

2d Directress—Mrs. Mary Barnwell. 
Secretary—Mrs. James Smith. 
Treasurer—Mrs, Sarah Fichling. 


Managers—Mrs. John McKee, Mrs. James Stewart, Mrs. John 
Bell, Mrs. William Johnson, Miss Bull, Miss Sarah G. Barnwell. 


5. THE FEMALE MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF OHRIST CHURCH, SAVAN- 
NAH, GA. 


Formed in March, 1823. 


OFFICERS. 


President—Mrs. Kerr. 
Secretary and Treasurer—Mrs. Irvine. 


6. THE FEMALE AUXILIARY MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF GERMAN- 
TOWN, PA. 


Formed in April, 1823. 


OFFICERS. 


1sé Directress—Miss Bullock. 

2d Directress—Miss Baynton. 
Secretary—Miss EK. Baynton. 
Treasurer—Miss Morris. 


Managers—Miss Langley, Miss Bringhurst, Miss Leger. 
3 


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34 Auxiliary Societies. 1823. 


4, THE AUXILIARY FEMALE MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION OF CHRIST 
CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA. | 


Formed in April, 1823. 


OFFICERS. 
1st Directress—Mrs. Mix. 
2d Directress—Mrs. C. Stevenson. 
Secretary—Miss 8. Hutchins. 
Treasurer—Mrs. Heineker. 


Managers—Mrs. Loomis, Mrs. Emlin, Mrs. Hackquin, Mrs. J. 
Miller, Mrs. Bryant, Miss Ann DeCosta, Miss Martha 8. Clarke, 
Miss Mary W. Clarke, Miss Elizabeth Cooper. 


8. THE AUXILIARY FEMALE MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION OF TRINITY 
CHURCH, SOUTHWARK. 


Formed May %, 1828. 


OFFICERS. 
lst Directress—Mrs. Cassan. 
2d Directress—Mrs. Roberts. 
Treasurer—Mrs. Joseph Klapp. 
Secretary—Miss Cowpland. 


Managers—Mrs. Morgan, Mrs. Wallington, Mrs. Houseman, 
Mrs. Grease, Mrs. Brenton, Mrs. Devereaux, Mrs. Roberts, Mrs. 
Whitney, Miss Rees, Miss Carr, Miss Price, Miss Cowpland. 


The Report stated, moreover, that 


“Several of the female members of the Episcopal: Church, in 
Laneaster, Pennsylvania, have formed another association, partly 
for missionary purposes. It is expected they will contribute some- 
thing either directly to the parent society or through the auxiliary 
belonging to their own Church.” 


The Board of Directors reported to the Society the appoint- 
ment, on the 23d of May, 1822, of Mr. Ephraim Bacon and his 
wife as catechists and teachers, to serve upon the western coast 
of Africa, and stated that the Executive Committee had been 


authorized to apply a portion of the appropriation at their dis- 
posal to this object. 


1822, Leport of the Board of Directors. 35 


Thus it is seen that the first selected Foreign Mission was in 
West Africa, and the first Foreign Missionary appointed was to 
that country. 

It was further reported that the Executive Committee had 
authorized Mr. Bacon to go out as an agent to procure funds 
toward the establishment of the eontarnghr Mission School in 
Africa. Under this authority Mr. Bacon made three missionary 
tours: first, in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia; second, in 
New Bi tshive, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. These were 
in behalf of his mission, and resulted in his obtaining for that 
object on the first, $1,892.10; on the second, $367.09. His third 
tour was for the general objects of the Society, for which he 
visited North and South Carolina, and Georgia. The amount 
collected, as gathered from his report, was about $2,100. 

The very interesting letters, in which Mr. Bacon gave a 
detailed statement of facts respecting each of his missionary 
visits, were submitted with the Report of the Board of Directors. 
They furnish very satisfactory evidence of his great good sense 
and practical wisdom, which seem to have made him a welcome 
visitor everywhere, and gave him good success as an agent. 

His narrative of his two tours in the South exhibit another 
fact which it is eminently fit to mention—viz., the readiness 
and liberality with which the people there, at that day, responded 
to the call of Missions. This readiness of mind to give was 
witnessed in all subsequent years until their changed condition, 
as the result of the late war, left them too impoverished te 
respond to calls from which they had previously never turned 
away. 

In his letter, giving account of his first missionary tour, Mr. 
Bacon says that, on the 5th of June, 1822, he received from Bishop 
White notice of his appointment as a catechist for Africa; that 
he was detained in Philadelphia until the 19th of that month 
before setting out on his journey south. These days he devoted 
to soliciting contributions ; and among other means made use of, 
says: “ A sermon was preached in St. Thomas’s Church, by the 
Rev. Mr. Bedell (afterward Dr. Bedell, father of the present 
Assistant Bishop of Ohio), and a aecacn taken up.” 

The facts in the case seem to point to this as the first sermon 


whe kind 


36 Report of the Board of Directors. 1823, 


and first collection for the African Mission; at least, the first 
subsequent to Mr. Bacon’s appointment. __ 

Mr. Bacon, in his Report of his missionary tour, makes 
mention of the very cordial greeting he received at the hands 
of Bishop Kemp, of Maryland, and Bishop Moore, of Virginia, 
and of the encouragement given him by several other of the 
clergy, among whom is mentioned the Rev. Mr. Tyng, then 
Rector of St. John’s Church, Georgetown, D. C., now the Rev. 
Dr. Tyng, of St. George’s, N. Y. 

In an account of his tour, some months afterward, to portions 
of New England, mention is made by Mr. Bacon of the friendly 
aid given by Bishop Griswold ; the Rev. Dr. Jarvis; the Rev. Mr. 
(Dr.) Eaton, Rector of Christ Chur ch, Boston ; the Rew Mr. (Dr.) 
Crocker, Rector of St. John’s Churehs Providenee Rev. James 
Morss, Teeter of St. Paul’s Church, Newbutepaies the Rev. 
Mr. (Dr.) Wheaton, Rector of Trinity Church, Newport, R. L.; 
and several laymen of distinction, among whom were persons not 
of the Episcopal Church, who contributed money for his Mission. 

In his narrative of his journey to the far South, several 
distinguished laymen are mentioned, who cheered him with 
liberal gifts; and among the clergy who gave him effective aid 
we find the names of the Rev. Thomas House Taylor, of St. 
Michael’s, Charleston (subsequently the Rev. Dr. Taylor, of Grace 
Church, N. Y.); the Rev. Joseph R. Walker (the Rey. Dr. 
Walker, who still ministers to his flock in Beaufort, 8. O.); and 
the Rev. Hugh Smith (afterward the Rev. Dr. Smith), aici of 
St. Peter’s Oharch: N.Y. 


FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, AT THE TRIEN- 
NIAL MEETING, 1828. 


The Treasurer’s account shows the amount received for the 
two years since the organization of the Society to have been as 
follows: 


For General Purposes (as nearly as can be ascertained from published 


STALOMENIS.. . oceanic ute 2's ae oe we’e elaigin ates Wh bie GLI En $3,756 33 
For Domestic Missionary account...........,... «se 471 00 
For Foreign Missionary account. ...:,.a%.......<.. se 1,496 25 


$5,723 58 


ae 


$950: 


a 


REV. G. T. BEDELL. D D. 


"4822. Report of the Board of Directors. 37 


As the account from which we gather the above does not 
exhibit the exact amount of collections for General Account, in 


(1822, but gives only the balance of account brought down, it is 


probable that the whole sum collected to May, 1823, did not 
vary much from $6,000. | 


The Board of Directors reported, moreover, that— 


“In the beginning of November (1822), the Rev. Mr. Bedell 
consented to serve the Society for a few weeks, as an agent, and to 
visit some of the Eastern States. His Report, made to the Com- 
mittee on his return, will show the result of his labors.” 


In his Report the Rev. Mr. Bedell said: 


“| have to regret that my success has not been so great as I had 
fondly hoped for, but still as great as, under existing circumstances, 
could have been reasonably anticipated. The formation of a Society 
for missionary purposes, whose operations are intended to be exten- 
Sive, is a circumstance yet new to the Episcopalians of our country, 
and will require some considerable time to produce such a favorable 
impression as shall lead them to enter into the subject with a zeal 
and energy at all proportioned to the importance of the object. 

“The Society will be under great obligations to the Right Rev. 
Bishop Brownell, and such of the clergy of his diocese as I have 
been enabled to visit, for their cordial approbation of the object, 
and the prompt and effectual assistance which they have given to 
your agents.” 


Mr. Bedell took collections in Hartford, New Haven, Middle- 
town, and New London, Ct., amounting, in the aggregate, to 
$208. He mentions, also, an anonymous gift to the Society of 
$1,100, from a lady of Middletown, and says: “This is most 
unquestionably a noble example to those who are rich in this 
world’s goods, and who can, without injury to themselves, do 
incalculable good to the cause of the Lord, by a charity propor- 
tioned to their abilities.” 

The Report of the Board of Directors mentioned the appoint- 


ment of the Rev. Amos G. Baldwin, of the Diocese of New 


York, as an agent to visit the Western States. 


38 Report of the Board of Directors. 1822. 


His reports relate more particularly to the state of the regions — 
visited as fields for Domestic Missions. The same may be said 
of reports in letters from several parties submitted by the 
Board. 

The Rev. Messrs. Hankle and Van Pelt were appointed . 
Agents for South Carolina. 


The Rev. Mr. Wheaton, of Hartford, Ot., and Mr. Eleazer 
Williams, of Michigan Territory, are reported as agents of the 
Society. 


Concerning Publications, the Board reported as follows : 


“ Although the Committee were authorized by the Board 
to print, from time to time, missionary papers devoted to 
missionary intelligence, in order to circulate them among the 
Churches, nothing of this kind has yet been done. The reason 
why the Committee have postponed these publications was be- 
cause they have been enabled, at a much less expense, to 
give circulation to all the information relating to the Society 
through those periodical papers which were already set up. Still, 
however, the Committee suppose, when the number of auxiliaries 
shall be increased, and the operations of the Society more extended, 
it will be very important to keep up a continual communication 


with every branch of the Church by means of these missionary 
papers.” 


The Board reported the holding of a public meeting of Epis- 
copalians in St. James’s Church, in the city of Philadelphia, on 
the 14th October, 1822, when, under a resolution of the meeting, 
“Committees of Collection” were appointed for several parishes 
in the city, which committees, or, at least, a portion of the same, 
reported, at an adjourned meeting, the result of their efforts.. 


The Board of Directors close their Report as follows: 


“Jn concluding this Report, the Board of Directors beg leave to 
congratulate every member of the Society, and of the Church, 
upon the auspicious commencement of its labors. And yet it is as 
a grain of mustard-seed hid in the earth, which, under the blessing 
of God, who never fails to honor them who honor Him, will become 
a tree, beneath whose shade many will sit with great delight. 


ee 


182. Report of the Board of Directors. 39 


“One of the happiest features of the present prospect of the 
Church of Christ, is the increasing spirit of missionary zeal. This 
sacred fire, not like that in pagan fable, did in truth come down 
from Heaven, and is finding its silent way over both continents. 
With the increase of Missions, the advance of true piety is insep- 
arably connected. The living members of Christ’s mystical body, 
being partakers of the same faith, animated by the same hope, and 
constrained by the same love of Jesus Christ, will delight to 
emulate each other in the same blessed enterprise which promises 
to give the heathen to the Redeemer for His inheritance, and the 
uttermost parts of the earth for His possession. 

“ Blessed are all they who are interested in such a cause; they 
are fellow laborers with Gop in the accomplishment of his purposes ; 
they are the best friends of the Lord Jesus, who ‘came into the 
world to save sinners.’ Let us not doubt, or fear, or grow tired in 
the work. ‘The Lord Himself is with us; the God of Jacob is 
our defence.’ ” 


So spoke our fathers, in their first Report to the Church, and 
to it, in this our 
JUBILEE YEAR, 


we respond, Amen. Amen. 


* BLESSED ARE THEY THAT DO His COMMANDMENTS, THAT 
THEY MAY HAVE RIGHT TO THE TREE or Lirz, AND MAY ENTER IN 
THROUGH THE. GATES INTO THE Crty.” 


CHAPTER IL 


From tHe Trrenntan Merrinc or May, 1823, To tax TRI 
ENNIAL Merrtinc or November, 1826 


In preparing the foregoing opening chapter, we have found 
great delight in reproducing the words of wisdom spoken and 
written by those noble men to whom the cause of Missions was 
dear—most of whom now rest from their labors. We have 
followed with deepest interest the earliest steps toward the 
establishment of a General Missionary Society, and have seen its 
accomplishment. by the General Convention, at a special meeting 
assembled in October, 1821. A full summary of the doings of 
that Society for the two years following, at least so far as relates 
to the Foreign Missionary work of the Church, is furnished in the 
foregoing pages. We have thought it well to make it as full as 
it is, especially in view of this Misstonary Jusriten, which brings 
fresh to our recollection and weleomes to a warm place in our 
hearts our fathers and brethren who laid the foundation of that 
structure upon which we, their children, build. 

This second chapter brings us to an account of that which 
was done during the next period in the history of the Domestic 
and Foreign Missionary Society to the second triennial meeting 
of the Society, held in St. Peter’s Church, Philadelphia, November 
10, 1826. 

Bishop White presided, and the Rey. George Weller was 
appointed Secretary.* 

The Report of the proceedings of the Board of Directors 
since last triennial meeting was read by the Rev. Mr. Ives. 


* Again we have to regret the absence from the published proceedings of a 
list of those who were present at the meeting. 


eh ioe, 
~~ 


1828-26. Officers of the Society. 4 


The ‘Report was accepted and referred to the Board of 
Directors for publication. 
The following resolutions were adopted. by the Society : 


“ Resolved, That it be recommended to every clergyman of this 
Church, on the last Sunday in December of the present year, or on 
some other Sunday soon after the adjournment of the General Con- 
vention, to preach, in their respective churches, a sermon setting 
forth the claims of this Society on the patronage of Episcopalians ; 
to be followed by a collection in aid of the funds of this Society, 
and that the amount of said collection be forthwith transmitted to 
the Treasurer of the Society. — 

“ Resolved, That every clergyman of this Church be requested, 
whenever the circumstances of his parish will allow of it, to use his 
exertions in forming societies auxiliary to the Domestic and J’oreign 
Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 

“ Resolved, That a copy of the Report: when printed be sent to 
every clergyman of our Church.” 


The above resolutions were respectively offered by the Rev. 
Dr. Gadsden, of Charleston (subsequently Bishop Gadsden, of 
South Carolina), the Rev. Mr. Wheaton, of Hartford, Conn., and 
the Rey. Mr. DeLancey (subsequently Bishop DeLancey), of 
Western New York. 

The meeting then went into the election of a Secretary and 
twenty-four Directors, as required by the fourth Article of the 
Constitution. The names of these are given in the following full 
list of 

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. 
President : 
Rt. Rev. William White, p.v. 


Vice Presidents: 
Rt. Rev. J. H. Hobart, p.p., 
A. V. Griswold, p.p. (Patron), 
R. C. Moore, v.p. (Patron), 
James Kemp, D.p., 
John Croes, D.D., 
N. Bowen, pD.D., 
P. Chase, p.p., 
T. C. Brownell, p.p., 1u.p. (Patron), 
J. S. Ravenscroft, p.p. 


42 


Officers of the Society. 


Patrons: 


1823-26. 


(By the contribution of Fifty Dollars, who by the Vth Art. of the Constitution are Directors.) 


Rey. 8. C. Brinkle, 


Rey. 


George Boyd, 
Frederick Beasley, 
S. H. ‘Turner, ».p:, 
James Milnor, D.p., 
J. P. K. Henshaw, 
J. RK. Walker; 

W. Richmond, 

J. Kemper, 

B. Allen, 

J. J. Robertson, 


J. Abercombie, D.D., Mrs 
L. 8. Ives, 

T. G. Allen, Mrs 
W. H. DeLancey, Mr 
G. T. Bedell, Mrs 
S. F. Jarvis, p.p., 

Asa Eaton, 


Alfred L. Baury, 
David Butler, 

W. Jackson, 

C. H. Wharton, p.p., 
J. Montgomery, — 


Mr. 


B. C. Cutler, 
Bird Wilson, D.p., 
R. U. Morgan, 

J. Rodney, 

H. Anthon, 

John Pintard, 
Richard Dale, 

M. B. Roche, 


Hon. John Jay, 


. Sarah Dehon, 

T. McEwen, Esq., 
. Eliza Kohne, 
. Edward Burd, 
. If. Markoe, 

M. Banyer, 


Miss Ann Jay, 


A. C, Magruder, Esq., 
Peter Kean, Esq., 


Mr. W. Hooper, 


Geo. Pomeroy, 
J. C. Herbert, Esq., 


Massachusetts, Rev. 
Vermont, Rey. 
Rhode Island, Rev. 
Connecticut, Rev. 
New York, Rey. 
New Jersey, Rev. 
Pennsylvania, Rey. 

Rey. 


F. S. Key, Esq. 


Secretary ¢ 


Rev. George Weller. 


Directors: 


Isaac Boyle, 

Abraham Bronson, 
Salmon Wheaton, 

H. Croswell, 

B. 'T. Onderdonk, p.p., 
John Croes, Jr., 

Jehu C. Clay, 

John Rodney, 

William Meredith, Esq., 
John C. Lowber, Esq. 


1838-26. Report of the Board of Directors. 43 


Pennsylvania, Thomas Hale, 
Charles N. Bancker, 

Cornelius Comegys, 
H. Hollingsworth, 


Hugh DeHaven, 

F. G. Smith, Esq., 
Delaware, Rev. Ralph Williston, 
Maryland, Rey. W. E. Wyatt, p.v.,- 
Virginia, Rey. William H. Wilmer, p.p., 


Rey. William Meade, 
North Carolina, Rev. R. 8. Mason, 
South Carolina, Rey. C. E. Gadsden, v.p., 


Georgia, Rev. Abiel Carter, 
Ohio, Rey. 8S. Johnston. 
Treasurer : 


Mr. Thomas Hale. 


Trustees of the Permanent Fund: 
The Treasurer, together with 


John Read, Esq., and 
Mr, C. N. Bancker. 


In the beginning of their second Triennial Report, the Board 
of Directors say they 


“ Cannot refrain from an expression of their gratitude to God, 
that amidst all their embarrassments, [He has not suffered this insti- 
tution to be entirely overlooked in the multiplicity of charitable 
efforts which so signally characterize the present day. While the 
Board cannot but feel and lament that the interests of the Society 
have been a good deal marred, and its operations cramped by cer- 
tain unfavorable circumstances, they at the same time derive cour- 
age to hope for greater success in future, from the fact that the 
members of our Church generally seem of late more alive to the 
importance of missionary exertions, and our Clergy to feel more 
deeply the weight of sacred responsibility imposed in the high man- 
date of the Son of God, ‘Go, PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREA- 
TURE.’ ” | 


The Board of Directors reported that, on the day succeeding 
the last triennial meeting of the Society (May 22, 1823), the 


44. Report of the Board of Directors. 1823-26. 


Board met and organized by appointing their officers and com- 
mittees. ‘It was resolved that the funds of the Society should 
be placed at the disposal of the Executive Committee, Ro 
they should not exceed $10,000.” 

At this meeting also a committee was appointed to take into 
consideration and nominate to the Board, Missionary Stations, 
Missionaries, and Dioceses requiring aid. 

On the 26th day of the same month the Committee reported 
sundry resolutions, one of which was as follows: 


“Resolved, That such place on the western coast of Africa as 
may to the Executive Committee appear most eligible be considered 
a missionary station. 


All other matters reported for the year 1823 related to Do- 
mestic Missions. 

Concerning the annual meeting for the year 1824, the Board 
reported nothing special with reference to Foreign Missions. 


The Board reported that— 


“At the annual meeting for 1825, the VIIth Article of the By- 
Laws was altered so as to increase the number of the Executive 
Committee to: twelve persons.” 


The Board reported that— 


“On the 19th of May, 1826, the annual meeting was held, and 
officers and committees appointed. The former Secretaries having 
resigned, the Rev, L. 8. Ives was chosen Corresponding Secretary, 
and the Rey. George Weller, Recording Secretary ; and resolutions 
placing the funds of the Society at the disposal of the Executive 
Committee were again renewed.” 


The Board of Directors submitted, as a portion of their Re- 
port to the Society at this triennial meeting, the Report of the 
Executive Committee for the three years since 1823. 

This Report was arranged under the following heads: 


I, Agencies. IV. Missionaries. 
II. Auxiliary Societies, V. Publications and Books. 
IIH. Missionary Stations. | VI. Appropriations. 
VII. Funds, 


— ‘ ‘ * Ba : Ee fee ss 


1828-26, Report of the Board of Directors. 45 


I. Agzncres.-—June 2, 1823. The Rev. Mr. Boyd, Corre- 
sponding Secretary, was requested to visit the State of Delaware 
as an agent of the Society, and attend the annual Convention 
about to be held at Dover, for the purpose of aiding in the for- 
mation of an Auxiliary Society. 

On the 24th of the same month, Mr. Ephraim Bacon was ap- 
pointed domestic agent of the Society. The Committee report- 
ed that “the result of these agencies does not appear from any 
documents accessible to the present Corresponding Secretary.” 

On the 29th of May, 1826, the Rev. John Davis was appoint- 
ed to visit the Eastern States, for the purpose of raising funds 
for the Society, and was so occupied for about four months, and 
of his work the Committee reported as follows: “ From many of 
his communications to the Society, to which publicity has already 
been given, and from his final report, he appears to have been 
faithful, and in many a eminently useful in forming Auxil- 
lary Bacietios.” | 

The Committee haa in connection with the above, “‘ We 
here take the liberty of expressing the opinion, that could there 
be general application made to the members of our Church, by 
the means of agents, much might be immediately effected for the 
Society. 


II. Avuxmiary Societies—In addition to those Auxiliaries 
noticed in the last Triennial Report of the Society, the following 
were presented : 


1. The Missionary Socrety of the Diocese of Delaware. 

2. The Episcopal Missionary Society of Hartford, Con- 
necticut. | 

3. Lhe Episcopal Missionary Society of Middletown, Con- 


necticut. 


In addition to the above, it appeared from the report of the 
Rev. Mr. Davis that Auxiliary Societies had been formed in Con- 
necticut in the following places: Chatham, Bridgeport, Stamford, 
New London, Norwich, and Litchfield. 

In Lehode Island, Providence and Newport. 

In Massachusetts, Boston, Salem, and Marblehead. 


46 Report of the Board of Directors. 1828-26, 


The hope was expressed that societies would be immediately — 
formed in New Haven, Stratford, and Norwalk, in Connecticut, 
and at Bristol, Rhode Island; and the Committee remark, 


«Were Auxiliaries general throughout the United States, our 
Society would not be deficient in funds, adequate to the most ex- 
tended operations; and what congregation would suffer by thus 
nurturing within its bosom the fire of missionary zeal—a love for 
diffusing that knowledge of Christ, which is eternal life ?” 


III. Misstonary Statrions.—The following embraces all that 
is said under this head concerning Foreign Missions. 

After mentioning the stations opened in the wide field of 
Domestic Missions, the Committee remark, 


“ Much of this destitute land remains still to be possessed—not- 
withstanding this there is one benighted region which, in the opin- 
ion of the Committee, has high and commanding claims upon our 
immediate attention. Both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South 
America seem, from the state in which the recent political revolu- 
tions have left them, and from the expressions of strong desire on 
the part of the needy inhabitants to receive the services of our 
Church, to be elevated before us, by the hand of Providence, to 
arouse the energies and claim a portion of the bounty of our Soci- 
ety. Other denominations are even now taking the field; let it not 
be our reproach that we are always too late.” 


IV. Misstonartus.— The appointments. and reports under 
this head all relate to Domestic Missions. 


V. Pusrications.—The report states: 


‘No publication has been conducted under the auspices of the 
Society. The Financial Committee were instructed, July 15, 1823, 
to subscribe for a certain number of copies of the Philadelphia 
tecorder, a weekly paper, not to exceed in amount $100. About the 
same date the Auxiliary Bible and Common Prayer Book Society, 
in New York, presented a donation to the Society of one hundred 
Common Prayer Books.” 


1823-26. Treasurer's Accounts. 47 
VI. Appropriations.—Lhese relate to Domestic Missions. 


VII. Fuxps.—From the Treasurer’s account, rendered No- 
vember 6, 1826, we have the following statement of the funds of 
the Society : 


General Appropriation, balance due Treasurer.................--- $562 17 - 
Domestic Missions account, balance in hand..................00-5 178 09 
Foreign Missions account, balance in hand......................-. 1,505 07 
1,683 16 
Deducting balance due Treasurer, as above.................-. 562 17 
$1,120 99 


Since that date, November 6, 1826, to the date of the 
meeting, November 10, 1826, the Treasurer acknowledges the 
receipt of the following: 


Collections in Trinity Church and St. Paul’s Chapel, New York, for 


OSE A ee $200 00 
MMI GS Sao cache iso 5 viele « gee Voelew vices cece eres eseces 40 00 
From a lady of Trinity Chapel, Geneva, N. Y., $5; and as a sub- 
ST SA re nee ie SARE eee satan oe 9 00 
From the Auxiliary of Christ Church, Middletown, Conn., for Domes- 

tic Missions, $61; for Foreign Missions, $1................... 62 00 
From the Auxiliary Society at Hartford, Conn.. of ian 210 00 
From the Ladies’ Sunday School Association of ee same arphae Spay 20 00 


Meee Weerrattncr balance Of 77205. l. ee cece ee ence tees $541 00 


‘The Report then states that it appears there are at present— 


82 Annual Subscribers, 
22 Life Subscribers, 

44 Patrons, 

32 Auxiliaries. 


The contributions for the three years from the first Triennial 
Meeting appear, from the Treasurer’s accounts, to have been as 
follows: 


Ss Lipa 
/ 
48 Address by the Executive Committee. == 1828-6. 
1824. .For General Appropriation. ............4.. bgt ete $1,815 50 | 
Domestic Missions:c0 cmc si.) onset 3 00 
Foreign Missions. . ..i.0 nemsniae> = <9 eet ee 341 88 
—— $2,160 38 
1825. .For General Appropriation..............2....006 $1,330 90 - 
Domestic Missioms. 70) .r icp: 2 eyes eke ee — 
Foreign Missions. #2035 saps cistsi-s ae atten —_— 
— 1,330 90 
1826, to Nov. 6..For General Appropriation.......... ee $1,672 99 
: Domestic Missions. 422)... eee — — 
Foreign Missions: «. Jc) ss'.0e is oR 92 00 
— 1,764 99 
Total for three years. ........-c0e45 enelsie+ ses een $5,206 27 


The Board of Directors, at their Triennial Meeting, reported 
an Address sent out by the Executive Committee, under date, 
Philadelphia, Aug. 8, 1826, from which we make the following 
extracts : 


“The Executive Committee of the Domestic and Foreign Mis- 
sionary Society, of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United 
States, with the view of calling the attention of the Episcopal 
public to the claims of this Society, have deemed it expedient to 
make, in this way, an appeal in its behalf. To this they have 
been prompted by a sense, as well of the importance of the Insti- 
tution as of the obligations of all the members of the Church in 
reference to it; and the duty is rendered more imperative from the 
consideration that thus far the Society has excited but a very 
inadequate interest, and met with a patronage altogether dispro- 
portioned, both to the exigencies and the resources of the Church. 

‘Recognizing in the circumstance of its unanimous establishment 
by the General Convention of the Church a powerful claim upon 
the favorable regards and efficient aid of all its members; and 
. under a full persuasion that the objects which it has in view are of 
paramount importance, and such as are intimately and necessarily 
connected with the advancement of our common Christianity and 
with the prosperity of the Church, we deeply regret the necessity 
of confessing that its operations have been hitherto on a scale far 
short of the extent and exigencies of the demands for missionary 
aid and labor, and its funds entirely incommensurate with the 
acknowledged means and munificence of Episcopalians. This state 
of things we would rather attribute to a want of acquaintance with 


ee j { ; ‘ as FS 


1828-26. Address by the Executiwe Oommittee. 49 


the existence and claims of the Society than to a want of interest 
in its important objects. To remedy this defect, and to present the 
institution te the members of the Church with the view of enlisting 
in its favor an aggregate interest and codperation, we respectfully 
submit the following considerations: 

“The Society comprehends within the sphere of its beneficence 
Domestic and Horeign Missions ; the former comprising the 
civilized limits of our country; the latter the aborigines of our 
country* and the unchristianized people of other lands. In regard 
to the second department of our Foreign operations but little has 
been done. Acknowledging and feeling the duty of doing all in 
our power to accelerate that period when ‘the kingdoms of the 
earth shall become the kingdoms of the Lord and of His Christ,’ 
and the universal obligation of the command of the Saviour to 
promulgate Lis Gospel to every nation as yet unblest with its light 
and hope, and sincerely sympathizing in the sentiments and views 
which have prompted those wonderful efforts in this behalf which 
characterize the age in which we live, we must yet deny ourselves 
the gratification of taking a prominent part in the work, and be 
content, for some time to come, to leave this department of the 
missionary field to others, upon whom Providence seems to have 
devolved peculiar obligations and conferred peculiar facilities in 
relation to it. But yet we indulge the pleasing anticipation of the 
future extension of our operations in this respect, and of being 
enabled, from your ample resources, and a prevailing interest in 
the subject, to achieve something worthy of our distinguished priv- 
ileges and blessings. In the meantime, whatever benefactions 
may be given to this object will be scrupulously appropriated 
thereto, and will help forward the accumulation of a fund, of 
which the foundation has already been laid, for missions in foreign 
lands. | 

“In the other Foreign Department of the Society, that which 
respects the aborigines of our country, we take a more immediate 
interest, because of the peculiar relations subsisting between them 
and the present occupants of their former domains, and of the 


* It will be observed by the above extract tuat the limits by which the two 
portions of the field were at first defined were not precisely those which 
prevail under the present Constitution ; the present division defining Missions 
within the bounds of the United States as Domestic Missions—those without 
the bounds as Foreign Missions. 


4 


50 Address by the Executive Committee.  —=— 1825 6. 


especial obligations devolved upon us, from that and other consider- 
ations, to ameliorate their condition and to prepare them, by 
economical, moral, and religious culture, to take their station in 
society as intelligent and valuable citizens, and as enlightened and 
exemplary Christians. 

“For more than two years our attention has been directed to 
this subject, and incipient efforts have been made for the purpose at 
Green Bay, on the North Western Territory ; which, on account of 
its situation in respect to the various Indian tribes in its vicinity, 
has been thought to present peculiar facilities for our Indian 
operations. 

“For the last year the Rev. Norman Nash has been cmployed 
there as a Missionary ; and from the experiments and observations 
he has made, and the results of his labors, we feel authorized in 
holding out the expectation of signal benefit from his appointment, 
if he shall be enabled to execute those liberal and enlarged plans 
which are now contemplated by the Society, and which are abso- 
lutely necessary to give efficiency and permanency to its operations 
in that quarter. 

“Jt is the design of the Society, under the favor of Providence, 
to found there a complete Mission establishment, such as will best 
effectuate the objects in view, by training up the children of the for- 
est in the habits of civilization and in the doctrines and precepts of 
the Gospel, and by subduing the adult Indians to the auspicious 
sway and influence of both. | 

“It gives us unfeigned pleasure to say, that there exists, in rela- 
tion to this part of our work, a very general, and, in some respects, 
an intense interest, such as furnishes abundant ground to hope 
that, if our plans should meet with approbation, there will be no 
want of means to execute them. - 

‘To aid in this design, and to gratify the known wishes of some, 
it has been resolved, that the payment of fifteen dollars, for the ed- 
ucation of an Indian child, shall entitle the donor to designate the 
name of the beneficiary. In this form, and in every other in which 
this interesting duty can be discharged, we earnestly solicit the aid 
and codperation of the members of our Church.” * 


a ee 


* Alas! that these fond hopes of our fathers in the missionary work should 
have had so speedy a downfall, and the great enterprise, so wisely planned, so 
sadly fail—at least for a time. 


1828-26. Report of the Board of Directors. 51 


The Board of Directors closed their Second Triennial Report 
as follows: 


“When you look, brethren of this Society, upon our proceed- 
ings, you may perceive, in some respects, a cloud resting upon our 
path; but recollect that dangers and evils always cluster around the 
infancy of such an institution, and that experience, though it be in 
some degree sad, may pave the way, under the blessing of God and 
your fostering bounty, to far greater efficiency and success in future. 
And when you look forward and think, perhaps, that impervious 
darkness rests on the prospects of this Society, remember, too, that 
the cause we have espoused is the cause of God, and the objects we 
pursue are the salvation of immortal souls. 

“If we be zealous and faithful, and constant in prayer, the dark- 
ness that surrounds us may only serve to elevate before us the pillar © 
of fire, to disclose more fully our guide and defence, the wisdom 
and the power of the Omnipotent. 

“Let us not, then, brood over the little we have accomplished, 
but survey, with hearts alive to human misery, the desolations 
of Zion that call us to act. Contemplate the power of Him who 
hath promised to make us more than conquerors in our struggles for 
His cause, and meditate on the glorious reward of him who shall 
be the instrument of saving a soul from death. 'Then shall we go 
forward; then shall we increase our labors and our success ; for then 
shall we act under His banner, who has given assurance that He 
will be with us to the end of the world.” 


Previously to the annual meeting of the Board, in 1822, a sub- 
committee of the Executive Committee was appointed “to as- 
certain the most important stations to which the attention of the 
Society could be directed for missionary purposes.” ‘This sub- 
committee wrote letters propounding questions; among the ques- 
tions asked, inquiry, it appears, was made, where the same was 
proper, respecting the condition of the Indians. 

This sub-committee reported at the annual meeting of the 
Board this correspondence, and some of the replies are published, 
and among them extracts from a letter from Bishop Chase, of 
Ohio, in which the Bishop says : 


“In answer to your second question, I would beg leave to re- 


that of the Wi vandots, and of them I have great opel Ea: 

“A youth from that nation (about twenty-one) is now 
his education at my house, and bids fair to become the medium 
much good to his people. Could he be assured of a small sti 
to enable him to devote his attention, first to school-keeping } 
then to the work of catechising the youth of his tribe, I have] 
he would accept an appointment to that effect. Boi our funds oe 
fear, will be too limited, unless aided by the general Society.” ae 


The Sets resolution was enbseqnently adopted by ‘the on 
Board : 3 Ke 2» 


> 


“* Resolved, That such sums as the lixeoutl te Gomininte thay 
think proper be applied to aid the sending forth the Wyandot — 
above mentioned as a catechist and schoolmaster, eat under the 
direction of the Right Rey. eae Chase.” = Shee 


CHAPTER ITI. 


From THE Trrennt4n Mrrrinc 1n Novemser, 1826, To THE 
TrrenntaL Mrertine in Avcust, 1829. 


Ar the opening of this chapter the compiler of this record 
finds himself embarrassed by an hiatus in the series of published 
missionary documents of that period; the proceedings of the 
annual meeting of the Board, in May, 1827, not being found. It is 
hoped, however, that the references to these in the reports of the 
meetings which follow, will supply all that is essential to the in- 
tegrity of the record. 

A special meeting of the Board was held in the hall of the 
Franklin Institute, in the city of Philadelphia, October 24, 1827. 

Present, The Right Rev. Bishops White, Hobart, Kemp, 
Croes, and Bowen; the Rev. Drs. Wilson, B. T. Onderdonk, 
and Montgomery; the Rev. Messrs. Kemper, Ives, De Lancey, 
Rodney, W. OC. Mead, Prestman, Cumming, Noble, J. C. Clay, 
and Weller; Messrs. Meredith, Lowber, and Bancker. 

Prayers were offered by Bishop White, President. 

This meeting seems to have been called with reference par- 
ticularly to the affairs of the Green Bay Mission.* — 

The Executive Committee presented a long report (accom- 
panied by correspondence), filled with the most painful details 
concerning the Mission above mentioned. 


* The following resolution, it appears, was passed at the annual meeting in 
May: | 
“ Resolved, That all. proceedings in relation to the Green Bay Mission be 
suspended until the next meeting of the Board, and that the Executive Com- 
mittee be directed, in the interim, to make inquiries and to devise a plan for a 
permanent location and establishment of a Mission among the aborigines.” 


54 = Betracts from Minutes of Special Meetong. . 1827. 


It is not thought necessary to reproduce these documents. 
The following extracts from the minutes of the meeting prob- 
ably furnish all the information on this subject which may, at this 
day, be regarded as important: 


“The minutes of the Executive Committee since the meeting 
of this Board in May last, including the recent Report of a sub- 
committee on the Green Bay Mission, were read by the Secretary. 

‘Whereupon, on the motion of the Rev. S. ve Prestman, of Del- 
aware, it was unanimously 

“ Resolved, That the proceedings of the Executive Committee, in 
relation to the Green Bay Mission, since the appointment of this 
Board in November last, be approved, they having, in the view of 
this Board, faithfully discharged their duty.” 


On motion of William Meredith, Esq., the following Pream- 
ble and Resolutions were unanimously adopted : 


“Whereas, it was among the earliest and best purposes of this 
Society to take an efficient part in the great and benevolent work 
of extending to the Indian tribes the blessings of Christianity, and, 
with these, moral instruction and improvement in mechanics and 
agriculture ; and whereas, although the effort made to accomplish 
the purpose has, for some time, been necessarily suspended, yet re- 
cent occurrences strengthen the motives to exertion, and the hope 
of success is now happily encouraged by the reasonable prospect 
of patronage on the part of Government, as well as other circum- 
stances, particularly as regards the Indians in the vicinity of Green 
Bay ; therefore, 

“* Resolved, That the Mission to Green Bay be resumed, and that 
the Executive Committee be directed to take active measures, in 
concurrence with the views of the Government, for commencing 
and prosecuting a permanent establishment for the religious, moral, 
and literary education of the Indians in that vicinity, and for their 
instruction in the more useful mechanical arts, and in agriculture, 
and that such measures be taken as soon as the season and cir- 
cumstances will permit. 

“ Resolved, That for the accomplishment of a design so pure and 
sacred, reliance is placed, under the favor and protection of Provi- 
dence, upon the renewed zeal and liberal support of the members 


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1821. Retracts from Minutes of Special Meeting. 55 


of the Church, and of the Christian community; and that it be 
recommended to the Executive Committee to adopt such means as 
they may deem expedient for the purpose of increasing the funds 
of the Society, in order that they may become fully adequate to the 
object.” 


And, on motion of Mr. Meredith, it was also 


“ Resolved, That this Board, having attentively considered the 
communication made by the Rev. Norman Nash, their late Missson- 
ary at Green Bay, under date of June 16th last, and having also 
attentively considered the report made to the Executive Committee 
by a sub-committee of that body, under date of the 23d of October 
instant, with the correspondence and documents relating to that 

_ Mission, feel themselves bound to express the opinion that its failure 
is to be attributed mainly to the following causes: 

“1. To a confidence, which events prove to have been misplaced, 
in the zeal, skill, and capacity of the Missionary, which led to acqui- 
escence in an attempt at a project beyond the means and ability of 
the Society, and besides, disproportioned to the actual state of 
things. 

“9. To consequent expenditures by the Missionary which, if they 
could ever have been turned to advantage, must have waited a 
further progress in the Mission, but were unsuitable to its actual 
condition and circumstances ; while purposes, presently useful and 
practicable, were thereby unavoidably straitened and decayed. 

“3. To the jealousy manifesting itself especially toward auxiliary 
agents—delaying or defeating their useful endeavors—and the 
assuming a power beyond the control or interference of principals. 

“4. And, more especially, to the conduct of the Missionary, by 
which it too manifestly appears, by his own showing, that official 
duty was, in his regard, secondary and subordinate to another 
design, which, although he may have estimated it as of primary 
expediency and importance, slackened his zeal and interfered with 
his attention to the former—tended to delay and defeat the purposes 
of his appointment—to impair and destroy the confidence of those 
to whom he had voluntarily become an agent, and, at last, unavoid- 
ably to the discontinuance of his agency.” 


The Record of proceedings goes on to say— 


56) Extracis from Minutes of Special Meeting. — 1827. 


“While the Board feel themselves bound to express these opin- 
ions which touch the conduct of the Rev. Norman Nash as a 
Missionary, they cannot but regret what has proved to result in the 
disappointment of the expectations entertained by. the Executive 
Committee, and founded upon supposed qualifications on the part 
of the Missionary; and it is the sentiment of the Board that if 
more caution had been used at the outset—more limited confidence 
been placed in the agent as concerns capacity and fidelity—and 
more determined proceedings been taken, when the ground to believe 
that he was wavering or calculating, as to the performance of duty, 
ceased to be even questionable, some of the disappointment now 
experienced might have been prevented. _ ; 

‘ As a lesson of experience, however mortifying, it may be not 
entirely unprofitable, leading to the correction of the past and the 
prevention of future similar errors of judgment or conduct.” 


At this meeting of the Board there was ordered an Annual 
Report from the Executive Committee of their proceedings, 
receipts, and expenditures, the doings of the Missionaries and all 


other agents of the Board; which Report, on its being accepted, 


was to be immediately published, for the information of the 


members of the Society and of the Church. 


The following Resolution was adopted, on the motion of the ~ 


Rev. Mr. Noble, of Connecticut: 


“« Resolved, That it be reeommended to the Executive Committee 


to commence the publication, quarterly, or oftener if they should. 
deem it expedient, of articles of intelligence in relation to Missions. 


calculated to interest the members of the Church in this great 
cause of Christian benevolence, and that they forward copies of the 
same to the patrons, sibacr heme and. societies auxiliary to this 
Society.” 


In the above record we are pointed to the starting point of 


the first Missionary publication of the Domestic and Foreign 
Missionary Society. The agency of the press, in the form of 
Missionary publications, thus begun, has been wonderfully, 
enlarged since that day ; no less than four monthly papers, besides 
the Ton Weeks’ Paper and occasional papers, being now pub- 


1827, Lixtracts from Minutes of Special Meeting. 57 


lished in the interest of the Society, by the Committees of the 
Board of Missions. | ; i 

At this meeting of the Board of Directors, the following 
Preamble and Jesolution were, upon the motion of the Rey, 
Dr. Montgomery, unanimously adopted 


“ Whereas, ‘This institution, as its title designates, was instituted 
both for Domestic and Foreign Missions, and by its Constitution 
whatever funds are given for the promotion of these objects are to 
be appropriated to them respectively and exclusively—therefore, 

* Kesolved, That while the Board feel more alive to the spiritual 
wants of their own country, and especially of those members 
of our own household of faith who are destitute of the ministry 
and ordinances of the Church, and will always feel themselves 
bound to give a preference, in the distribution of the beneficence 
of the Society, as far as they have a discretionary control, to 
Domestic demands, they have a deep sense of the obligation of the 
command, ‘ Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every 
creature,’ and recognize in‘it a perpetual injunction to extend the 
blessings of the Gospel to all places that may be destitute of them; 
and that whatever benefactions are made with a view to Foreign 
Missions will be sacredly devoted to that object, and faithfully 
employed in its accomplishment, whenever, in the sound and judi- 
cious discretion of the Board, or the Executive Committee, it may 
be deemed expedient to act inthe matter. And that the Board feel 
themselves pledged to this course, from the interest they have 
already manifested in Foreign Missions in relation to the western 
‘coast of Africa, for which considerable funds have been accumu- 
lated, but in regard to which all the efforts of the Executive Com- 
mittee to procure a suitable agent or missionary have (till now) 
proved ineffectual ; * and from the interest taken by them in relation 
to the aborigines of the country, in regard to whom the Board 
have taken measures which evince their interest in the cause of 
Foreign Missions, however the success of those measures, for 
causes unforeseen and uncontrollable, have fallen short of the expec- 
tations entertained by those who participated in their adoption.” 


* The language here employed leads to the conclusion that something 
transpired at the Annual Meeting respecting the Mission of Mr. Bacon to 
Africa, not here recorded, for the reason already given, viz., the absence of 
records of that meeting. 


58 Mr. Bacon’s connection with the Society. 1828, 


- The following article, published in Quarterly Paper, No 1, 
March, 1828, gives what seems to be the last record concerning 
Mr. Bacon’s connection, as a missionary, with the Society : 


“ The Society has been for several years desirous of founding a 
missionary establishment on the western coast of Africa, with the 
view of extending the blessings of a? Gospel to the poor, degraded 
natives of that coast. 

“Tn 1822, Mr. Ephraim Bacon and his wife, both of whom had 
been in Africa, In connection with the American Colonization 
Society, on the return, offered their services to this Society for the 
commencement of Hoh an establishment. It was determined to 
send them out, and to give to Mr. Bacon the appointment of catechist. 
He employed some months, preparatory to his departure, in visiting 
different parts of our country, for the purpose of exciting an in- 
terest in favor of the Mission, and collecting the necessary funds 
for its maintenance. In this he was successful in a greater degree 
than had been anticipated, and procured ample evidence that the 
members of the Protestant Episcopal Church feel no small interest 
in the great work of spreading the Gospel, when an obvious mode 
of ping it is presented to their view. 

“Mr. Bacon collected about $1,800, in cash, and a variety of 
clothing and other useful articles to a corgideunpaa amount in value. 
= * The way now seemed clear for the Society, and 
the pleasurable anticipation was indulged that God would prosper 
the work, and make them the thankful instruments for accomplish- 
ing, in some degree, His will in the conversion of the heathen. An 
unexpected obstacle, however, arose from the refusal of the Coloni- 
zation Society, from some motive connected with the internal affairs 
of their colony at that period, to allow Mr. Bacon’s family and the 
goods procured for the Mission a passage in their vessels. Another 
opportunity was then anxiously sought for, and for some months, 
but in vain; and at length all the means that could be used having 
been adopted, without any prospect of success, the Mission was, for 
the time, with great reluctance on the part of the Executive Com- 
mitte, abandoned. 

“The money which had been contributed for this object was 
invested as part of the Foreign Mission Fund or Account, and was 
solemnly pledged to the endowment of an Arrican Missron, when- 
ever there should be.such a Mission established.” 


pe Stated Meeting of the Board of Directors. 59 


It appears from the Quarterly Paper from which the above is 
taken, as well as from the published proceedings of the next 
meeting of the Board, that, at the special meeting, in October, 
1827—the proceedings of which we are now recording—Mr. 
Jacob Oson, a colored man of Connecticut, was appointed as a 
missionary to Africa. 

The Resolution under which this was done is not recorded in 


the published proceedings of that meeting, October, 1827, for the 


reason, probably, that his appointment was not regarded as com- 


plete until he took orders. He was ordained deacon by Bishop 


Brownell on the 16th, and priest on the 17th, of February, 1828. 
Full particulars concerning him appear in the Report of the 
Executive Committee to the Board, at the meeting held in 


May, 1828. 


STATED MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, HELD IN THE HALL 
OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE, PHILADELPHIA, MAY 13, 1828. 


“Present, The Right Rev. Bishops White, Hobart, Croes, 
and Onderdonk; the Rev. Drs. Wharton, Abercrombie, Milnor, 
Onderdonk, and Montgomery; the Rey. Messrs. Williston, Kem- 
per, Prestman, J. C. Clay, R. 8. Mason, Rodney, Eaton, W. C. 
Mead, Van Pelt, T. G. Allen, and De Fancy Messrs. Lowber, 
Hall, ay Nicklin. 


The Executive Committee presented a Report, which was read 
and accepted. (Such portions of this Report as it may be thought . 
important here to record will appear in subsequent pages.) 

A committee, consisting of the Rev. Drs. Onderdonk and Mil- 
nor, and the Rev. Messrs. Eaton, Prestman, and Kemper, was 
appointed “to report such measures as it may deem expedient 
for this Board to take to increase the efficiency of the Society.” 
This committee reported, commending very highly the faithful- 
ness of the Executive Committee and of the Secretary—express- 
ing the opinion, however, 


“That very valuable results will flow from the adoption of the 
following Resolutions: 

“1, Resolved, That the appointment of a Permanent General 
Agent, with a compensation that would justify a claim upon the 


60. Stated Meeting of the Board of Directors 1828, 


undivided appropriation to the service of the Society of his time 
and labors, is an object which this Board should have in view as 
inseparable from the proper efficiency of the Society in the discharge 
of the high and holy functions committed to it by the Church. 

“9, Resolved, That the Executive Committee be authorized, as 
soon as the funds of the Society will admit, to appoint a permanent 
agent, with a suitable salary. 

“3, Resolved, That it should be the duty of the said permanent 
agent, under the direction of the Executive Committee, and acting 
with the consent and approbation of the Bishops, or ecclesiastical 
authority of the dioceses respectively, to engage in such services as 
may tend to maintain and increase in all parts of our Church the 
interest in behalf of this Society ; and to be instrumental in ad- 
vancing its cause, by the collection of funds and the establishment 
of one societies and associations, and, in general, the gags e 
of all proper measures. 

“4, Resolved, That until the funds of the society are sufficient 
for the purposes specified in the foregoing Resolution, the Executive 
Committee be authorized to make such other arrangements as may 
seem to them most expedient for answering, as far as may be, the 
objects proposed by the appointment of a permanent general agent.” 


% * *% * % * % * 


“The question being taken on the acceptance of the Report, and 
the adoption of the Resolutions thereto appended, they were, the 
Resolutions being first amended, severally accepted, and adopted 
accordingly.” 


The sermon before the Board, at this meeting, was preached 
by the Rev. Dr. Wainwright, of New York, in St. James’s 
Church. 

After Divine Service, the Board reassembled in the vestry- 
room, when, on motion of the Rev. Dr. Milnor, of New York, 
it was 


“ Resolved, That the thanks of the Board be given to the Rev. 
Dr. Wainwright, anc that he be requested to furnish a copy of his 


sermon for the press.’ 


Extracts from this sermon are given below. 


1828, Extracts from Dr. Wainwright's Sermon. 61 


“On motion of the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart, it was 

“* Resolved, That the Bishops, and the FrocleatetiGal wathoiitids 
in the several Dioceses, be requested to recommend to the clergy 
and congregations to make an annual collection in favor of 
this Society, and that the Secretary annually forward to them a 
copy of this Resolution.” 


[How strikingly like this is the action taken by the Board of 
Missions at its last two or three meetings. ] 

Extracts from the sermon preached by the Rev. Dr. Wain- 
wright, at the Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors, May 
13, 1828: 


“Our attention is to be directed toward the duty of sending 
forth the Gospel of Christ as widely as possible, even till it ReAthios 
the ends of the earth and penetrates every desert place upon its 
_wide circumference. ‘Cast thy bread upon the waters.’ The 
mighty ocean covers much of the largest portion of this world on 
Which we dwell; it can bear about’ with the greatest facility, and 
rapidity, and universality, the treasures that are intrusted to it; it 
encircles every island, washes the shores of every continent, and 
communicates with their deepest recesses by rivers and bays—its 
majestic arms. 

“ Here we find an illustration of the anticipations we are taught 
to indulge in regard to the extent of Christ’s kingdom, and an 
amplification of the words of prophecy that ‘the knowledge of the 
Lord shall fill the earth as the waters cover the sea. Here, also, 
we find the only boundaries which are to. limit our thoughts and 
labors in the sublime cause of Missions. The Gospel is not to be 
restricted to one nation, or kindred, or people: it is destined, in its 
sure and irresistible progress, to reach and pervade all. To what 
extent, as regards individuals, the kingdoms of this world are to 
become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, whether every 
living and accountable creature, in any one future age, will be 
brought to accept the offered terms of salvation, we know not; but 
of this we are assured, that God designs the Gospel to be preached 
to all, and has appointed a period in the duration of the world 
When every intelligent being, from the greatest to the least, shall 
have the opportunity of knowing the truth as it is in Jesus. 

“ Wiiere, then, are we Christians to limit our prayers, our projects, 


62 Extracts from Dr. Wainwright s Sermon. 1628, 


and our exertions? We do not confine our prayers; we daily 
beseech our Almighty Father that His kingdom may come, and His 
will be done on earth even as it isin heaven. In heaven, His will 
is universally performed and His Name adored by every blessed 
inhabitant there. Our prayers, therefore, reach forth in aspirations 
after a like universal exhibition of obedience and love here below. 
But what is the extent of our projects and our exertions? I fear 
that we shall discover them to be limited, cramped, and restrained. 
Cold selfishness and cowardly policy and lifeless attempts have 
been too often and too long the characteristics of many of those 
who call themselves disciples of Christ. When I consider what the 
Missionary cause is—that its design is to communicate to our 
brethren of the human family, who are destitute of them, blessings 
and privileges which we esteem invaluable and essential; to impart 
knowledge which we possess to beings like ourselves, who are abso- 
lutely perishing for lack of it; and when I consider that by 
imparting we diminish not the smallest portion of our own privileges’ 
and advantages, Iam in utter amazement that this cause is not more _ 
zealously promoted. And were it proper to introduce private feel- 
ings, | would add that I am grieved and humiliated that it has not 
heretofore occupied a much larger space in my own meditations and 
labors. 

“Jt is not simply because Christianity will improve the temporal 
condition of those to whom it is communicated ; saving the idolator 
from moral degradation, and from expensive offerings and sacrifices 
of human blood; restoring woman to her just privileges, her mild 
control and purifying influences, and thus bringing in its train all 
the benefits of civilized life; it is not on these accounts alone that 
we are to promote the dissemination of our religion. Great, unques- 
tionably, as are the moral and temporal advantages which accrue to 
those who are. the subjects of missionary labors, this must not be 
our sole, or our principal reason for promoting them. Would we 
aid. missions upon proper and efficient principles, we must aid them 
because they are means appointed by God for taking perishing sin- 
ners from a state of condemnation; for introducing the lost sons of 
Adam into the flock and fold of Christ ; for extending the triumphs 
of the Redeemer over sin, Satan, and death; and for peopling the 
mansions of the blessed with pure and rejoicing spirits, who might 
otherwise have been the hateful and blaspheming subjects of eternal 


| 


188, Extracts from Dr. Wainwright's Sermon. 63 


condemnation and misery. ‘These are the solemn and overwhelming 
considerations which present the cause of Missions in all its extended 
importance, which connect it with the awful sublimities of a future 
world, and which, therefore, are best calculated to rouse the atten- 
tion of beings acting on their responsibility as immortal. Those who 
have not these feeiings and views can never be engaged in it, as they 
should be, heart, mind, soul, and strength. When mere temporal 
advantages are to be communicated to our fellow-creatures, and moral 
renovation for the purpose of inducing them to live with greater 
purity and dignity ‘the life of to-day,’—when these are the only 
motives that impel us to the missionary cause, it will inevitably be 
pursued with the caution, the delay, the controlled feelings and 
views of a wordly policy. Let me know what opinions any set of 
men hold in regard to the distinguishing characteristic of the 
- Gospel of Christ, and I can almost predict how high the thermometer 
of their religious benevolence will rise when applied to the atmos- 
phere which envelops the sin-darkened nations. With the true and 
faithful missionary, the Gospel does not seize hold upon his affections, 
arm his resolutions, sustain his self-denial, and animate his labors as 
the Gospel of Christ the moral teacher, Christ the author of immor- 
tality, Christ the renovator of religion. No, it is Christ crucified, 
Christ the atonement for his sins, Christ the only and all-sufficient 
means of his restoration to the favor of God and the hope of future 
blessedness. This is the saying which is worthy of all acceptation, 
and which he earnestly desires may be accepted of all. This is the 
Gospel which he readily perceives was not communicated for him- 
self alone, but for every creature born in the same state of condem- 
nation with himself. And the gratitude which he feels for his own 
deliverance, his present consolations, and future hopes, while it 
fills his mouth with praises to God his Saviour, engages his hands 
and his heart to promote the cause which he knows to be dearest 
to that Saviour, for which He endured the er OSS, despising the shame, 
even the salv ction of the world. 

“ Domestic and Foreign Missions, though they may be distinct in 
name, though their transactions may be under the control of different 
bodies of men (and, perhaps, for their mutual benefit such a division 
of labors may be expedient), yet the cause itself is one and indi 
visible. That which makes them Foreign and Domestic is the 
difference of our civilrelations. But what has the Gospel of Christ 
to do with boundaries of kingdoms, or the forms of government, 


64 Extracts from Dr. Wainwright s Sermon. 1828. 


or differences of language, or varieties of feature and complexion ? 
The enlarged and generous spirit of Christian love overleaps these 
boundaries. God, who hath made of one blood all nations of men 
for to dwell on all the face of the earth, will the more approve our 
benevolence, the more expansive it becomes, because it then, in 
some degree, resembles his own universal goodness. Let not any 
onc imagine that he is the true and enlightened friend of Domestic 
Missions, while his affections are cold to those which have our 
distant brethren of the human family for their object. In our 


thoughts, our prayers, and our exertions, they are to be regarded 


as the offspring of the same principle, just as that is the same charity 
which gives to the destitute family that lives within sight of our own 
habitation, and to the unfortunate being plundered and wounded, 
and left for dead on the roadside, whom we casually encounter while 
on a distant journey. We could not innocently pass by the latter 
with neglect, for he also is our neighbor in the view of Christian duty. 

“But the plea and excuse of the spiritual destitution of our 
brethren at home returns upon us. Let us look again at the con- 
duct of the Apostles in this respect. They unquestionably went 
frequently and far on Foreign Missions. Will it be said that the 
corrupt and hardened Scribes and Pharisees of Jerusalem, the 
ignorant and yoke-bound slaves of their burdensome rites and 


foolish traditions in the regions round about (which was the field of ; 


Domestic Missions to the Apostles), will it be said that this field did 
not need their attention and cultivation as much as almost any 
portion of any nation of Christendom needs the labors of Christians 
of the present day? And when the Apostles knew that Jerusalem 
was to be trodden down of the Gentiles, and its wretched inhabi- 
tants destroyed or scattered abroad, might they not have found in 
the prospect of these dreadful visitations a powerful excuse for con- 
fining their labors to their own brethren? Yet they were not 
restricted by these views. They went forth—quickened by zeal for 
Christ and love for the souls of men—they penetrated even to the 
ends of the earth. Or will it be argued that to them obstacles were 
less and encouragements greater than to us? Let us make the compar 
ison. ‘The inveterate prejudice, the narrow bigotry or high contempt 
of Mussulmen: are these hateful qualities more prominent in them than 
they were in Pharisaical Jews of ancient times? The mild Hindoos 
are intelligent, are devoted to their superstition, which is supported 
by antiquity, and defended by learning and taste; but are they, 


1828. Extracts from Dr. Wainwright's Sermon. 65 


by these circumstances, placed farther beyond the reach of the 
Gospel than the polished and witty Greeks, or the dignified and 
philosophic Romans? The Indians of Western America and the isles 
of the Pacific are ignorant and degraded; the savage hordes of Africa 
are remote and intractable; but are they less accessible or more bar- 
barous than the furious Gauls, or naked Britons, or inhospitable 
Seythians? Or to coast the shores of the Mediterranean in frail 
barks, without compass or chart; was this less hazardous, or an en- 
terprise of less extent, than now to sail in our stately and well-or- 
dered ships, guided by experienced skill and the certainties of science? 

“No, my brethren. There is no obstacle to missionary enter- 
prise in the present day which was not equally formidable to 
the Apostles and early Missionaries. There was no encouragement 
given tothem which we do not enjoy in an equal degree. And I 
will venture to add, we have equal advantages for bringing converts 
to the faith of Christ, had we but their zeal and devotion. They, 
indeed, wrought miracles, they spake with foreign tongues, they 
were inspired teachers; but we have the arts of civilization, which 
arouse the attention and command the respect of the ignorant heathen 
like miracles ; we have time and facilities to learn foreign languages 
which were denied to the Apostles; and the preaching of the Gospel, 
if it be not from inspired lips, yet if these lips faithfully declare the 
truths of inspiration, the Spirit of God will give them entrance into 
the heart. Now, as in the days of the Apostles, the Gospel grows 
not from the planting of Paul, or the watering of Apollos, but 
because God giveth the increase.” 


Note.—The cause of Foreign Missions now seems to me connected in the most 
intimate manner with the prosperity of our Church at home. I do believe that 
in no way can we so effectually subserve our own ecclesiastical interests,—excit- 
ing and extending among ourselves a pure and self-denying spirit of piety, 
and an enlightened and ardent attachment to our own distinctive prin- 
ciples, as by planning and laboring, contributing and praying, to make this 
Church known and glorified, as the blessed instrument of communicating 
spiritual knowledge and spiritual consolations to all people, and kindred, and 
tongues, that dwell on the face of the earth. Arouse, then, fathers and brethren, 
ministers and people—as we are a Church professing primitive faith and apos- 
tolic discipline, let us also be a Church exhibiting primitive zeal and apostolic 
devotion to evangelizing the world; and may Jesus, our Lord and Saviour, 
be with us. He has promised, solemnly and faithfully, to be with us “alway, 
even to the end of the world,’ provided (and let us all well remember the con- 
dition)—provided we go forth and preach the Gospel to every creature. 


5 


66 Report of the Executive Committee. 1828. 


REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, MAY, 1828. 


1. The Proceedings of the Committee. 

After mentioning certain appropriations, the Committee 
report as follows : ' 

“The articles of clothing and merchandise which had been 
collected by Mr. Bacon, in 1822, for a Mission to Africa, and which 
had been deposited in various hands, were collected by a sub-com-_ 
mittee, examined and deposited in the Society’s room, A few small 
articles, which had received injury, were disposed of, and the - 
remainder carefully repacked.”’ 


Mention was made of the suspension of the Green Bay Mis- 
sion, and the closing of the Rev. Mr. Nash’s connection with | 
the Board, and of his transfer to the Committee of the articles 
purchased by him for the use of that Mission; of the employ- 
ment of the Rev. Clement F. Jones, then recently appointed 
as post-chaplain to the garrison at Fort Snelling, near the Falls 
of St. Anthony, on the Mississippi—Mr. Jones having ex- 
pressed his willingness to serve the Society in collecting infor- 
mation useful to the Committee, in relation to the Indian char- 
acter and disposition for instruction, in the region of country’ 
through which he must pass to his station, and while there; that 
the Committee had availed themselves of his services as their 
agent for the examination of the articles above alluded to, with 
direction to dispose of such as might be liable to injury, and to 
place the remainder in the charge of some suitable persons until 
the Executive Committee should be instructed by the Board 
to renew the Mission. Mr. Jones’s. labors were highly com- 
mended. 

The Committee reported further respecting the steps which 
had been taken to secure Governmental aid m the establishment 


of the mission at Green Bay; a portion of their Report is as 
follows: 


“Karly in October, the Executive Committee received private 
information that, at the treaty which was held last summer with 
the Indians in the vicinity of Green Bay, provision had been made 
for an education establishment, and the Secretary was directed 


1828, Report of the Executive Committee. 67 
\ 
to proceed immediately to Washington, to obtain, if possible, assur: 
ances from the Government that the appropriation proposed by 
this treaty should, in case of the ratification of the treaty, be placed 
at the disposal of this Society. Assurances to this effect were 
promptly given by the Secretary of War, which have since been 
confirmed by a correspondence with the Superintendent of Indian 
Affairs ; and the Committee, in anticipation of the ratification of the 
treaty, of which they have not yet been informed, have taken some 
steps which they earnestly hope will result in the permanent settle- 
ment of a Missionary establishment among the Indians in the vicinity 


of Green Bay.” 


The Committee recommended the appointment of the Rev. 
Eleazer Williams, ‘“ of Indian extraction, and in Deacon’s orders,” 
as a Missionary to the settlement of Oneida Indians who had 
emigrated from the State of New York, and now resided at the 
little Ka-ka-lin, on the Fox River, near Green Bay. 

The Executive Committee further Report as follows 


“The General Convention of 1826 directed, with an unanimous 
voice, that measures should be taken for establishing Missions at 
Liberia, on the coast of Africa, and at Buenos Ayres, in South 
America. The Executive Committee had, for some time previous 
to the meeting of that Convention, both these objects in view, and 
had taken some measures, and made some inquiries in relation to 
them which, though not pavoceafill to the extent desired, were yet 
useful in erating to future measures. = ‘ z 

“Tn the course of last summer some favorable indications of ulti- 
mate success appeared, and the Committee thought it necessary to 
request the President to call a special meeting of the Board of 
Directors. 4 7 * : : i Fe 

* At the same meeting, Mr. Jacob Oson, a man of color, was 
nominated a Missionary for Africa, so soon as he should obtain holy 
orders, for which he had been for some time a candidate in the 
Diocese of Connecticut. 

“Mr. Oson had been amply recommended to the Executive 
Committee as a man of piety, worth, industry, and competent 
talents, and as possessing a very sincere desire to preach the Gospel 
and exercise the ministry in Africa. He has since been admitted to 
holy orders by Bishop Brownell, of Connecticut, and, having set- 


68 Report of the Kxecutive Committee. 1828, 


tled his temporal affairs, is now in the service of the Society, and 
ready to embark in the first vessel which shall sail for Liberia. The 
clothing and goods which, as was stated above, have been some 
time in the hands of the Executive Committee for this special 
service, have been again examined, and ascertained to be a very 
valuable outfit for the Mission; to these the Committee have 
added, by purchase and otherwise, a collection of valuable books; 
chiefly practical, for the permanent use of the Mission; and they 
have been presented with a quantity of tracts for distribution at 
Liberia. | | 

“The Committee have great pleasure in adding, that in addition 
to the funds already in hand, and pledged to the African Mission, 
provision has been made by individuals of St. Paul’s Church, at 
Boston, for the personal support of Mr. Oson and his Mission [a 
noble example at that early day] to the amount of $300 per annum, 


for which the Committee have been authorized to draw annually, on | 


Easter Monday; and to this, Edward A. Newton, Esq., of Pittsfield, 
Massachusetts, has generously pledged the additional annual amount 
of $60. 

“The Committee now only wait the arrival of Mr. Oson at 
the scene of his labors, and his Report of a plan of operations, to 
add to the Mission such additional strength as may seem to be re- 
quired ; in obtaining which they are inclined to believe the difficulties 
which have heretofore operated will no longer furnish impediments. 
The Board, and the friends of the Institution generally, will doubtless 
rejoice with us that the Divine Head of the Church has at length 
been pleased to smile on our labors, and has opened for us a path 
of usefulness to this long injured and degraded race of men. May 
He graciously prosper the work until its consummation. 

“Tt is due to the Colonization Society to state, that on application 
to their Board of Directors to allow Mr. Oson a passage in one of 
their vessels, the request was promptly acceded to, with the addi- 
tional intimation that it should be free of expense to the Society. 
The Secretary of that Society has also promptly attended to every 
request for information which has been made to him on our part, 
andl has already furnished us with much information which will be 
of importance in the arrangements and furtherance of this Mis- 
sion.” | 


It is thought well here to complete the Record respecting the 


a * “oe ~~ a . 
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1828. Report of the Executive Committee. 69 


worthy servant of the Lord, in whom centred so many . hopes 
for the good of Africa—and we therefore insert the following, 
taken from the annual Report of the Executive Committee for 
the following year, 1829. 


“At the last meeting of this Board, the Committee congratu- 
lated the Board on the near prospect which was then presented of 
the commencement of a Mission, long desired by the Society and 
the Church at large, to Africa. A Missionary was then ordained, 
funds were Pravided for his support, and means for extending his 
usefulness on every. hand were pred Ay 0) 

“Tn the following September a vessel was. in readiness to sail 
from Philadelphia... A passage was immediately engaged, all nec- 
essary preparations were made, and Mr. Oson advised to prepare 
for his immediate departure. The notice found him on a bed of 
sickness, from whence he was taken, before the departure of the 
vessel, to his grave. 

“The Committee have mourned over this afilicting dispensation 
of Providence, and have in vain sought to fill the vacancy thus. 
suddenly and painfully created. They trust that Missions to Africa 
will be the subject of many prayers from the members of the Church, 
and that it may-at length be a part of the gracious designs of our 
ascended Lord, that our Church may enter on this work and. labor 
of love.” 


Touching the Foreign Missionary work of the Church, the 
Executive Committee further reported by saying that they would 
nominate to the Board, before the close of its session, a Missionary 
for Buenos Ayres.* 


* Asno nomination to this field is published with the proceedings of this 
meeting of the Board, it is supposed that the following entry in the minutes 
of that mceting refers to the nomination of the Rev. Mr. Williams, and to the 
nomination of some one for Buenos Ayres. 

| In the Record of the proceedings, there are at this place two resolutions 
respecting the appointment of Missionaries; but as the confirmation of these 
appointments rests upon testimonials to be presented. to the Executive Com- 
mittee, or have been referred to their discretion, it is deemed inexpedient to 
publish them. ] 


70 Report of the Executive Committee. 1828, 


II. Abstract of Receipts since the 17th of May, 1827.* 


Eor Domestic Accounts amie eerie oe ears $1,045 91 
For Foreign Account. stem, eimai r. sad ciewsi 215 00 
For General \AccountoG ere. 2) eee a 424 91 


——-$1,685 82 


The several balances of account to May 12, 1828, stood as 
tollows: 


Debit Credit, 
Domesti¢s orc. swe oe eee rear $79 33 
Foreign... o.ctt cs. bes asco eae similis ote alee $1,102 16 
Gréen/ Bay .G.e + ph eens ee ore iis a eale Clay cee oak oh outa aun 63 00 
General ec oe tac eae ee ee ecient eee 263 72 


Il. Patrons. 


The following have been made patrons since the last stated 
meeting of the Board: 7 


Rev. James Morss, p.p., of Newburyport, Mass., by ladies of his 
congregation. 

Rev. Samuel Nichols, of Bedford, N. Y., by Female Auxiliary So- 
ciety of-his congregation. : 

Rev. James F. Hull, of New Orleans, La., by Messrs Sheldon and 
Babcock, of that city. 

Rev. 8. W. Prestman, of Newcastle, Del., by Female Beneficent 
Society of his congregation. 

Rey. F. H. Cuming, of Rochester, N. Y., by Young Ladies’ Benev- 

| olent Society, of Rochester. 

Rev. B. G. Noble, of Middletown, Ct., by Auxiliary Society of his 
congregation. 

Rev. Smith Miles, of Chatham, Ct., by Auxiliary Society of his 
congregation. 


* Tt has becn already stated that the Proceedings and Reports of the Board 
for 1827 do not appear in any volume of the published Documents to which 
the compiler of this Record has had access; so that he has not been able to as- 
certain with accuracy the amount of receipts from November, 1826, to May, 
1827; it is believed, however, that the absence of that document has not occa- - 
sioned the omission here of any other fact of importance, except, possibly, 
that which relates to the formation of new auxiliaries and additions to the list 
of patrons and life members, 


1928. Report of the Executive Committee. fel 


Rev. Samuel Johnston, of Cincinnati, Ohio, by Auxiliary Society: 
of his congregation. 

Edward A. Newton, Esq., of Pittsfield, Mass., by his own subscrip- 
tion. 

William Jay, Esq., of Bedford, N. Y., by Female Auxiliary Society 
of St’ Matthew’s Church, Bedford. 

Rey. James Chapman, Amboy, N. J., by ladies of his congrega- 
tion. 

Rey. Peter Van Pelt, of Philadelphia, by Auxiliary Society of Trin- 
ity Church, Southwark. 


Members for Life. 


Samuel J. Donaldson, Esq., of Baltimore, by his own subscription ; 
Miss Julia B. Turner, of New York, by her father’s subscription, 
are the only additions to the list of Life Members. } 


Aualiary Societies. 


“Since the last stated meeting of the Board, the Executive 
Committee have been informed of the organization of the follow- 
ing Auxiliaries : 


The Female Missionary Society of St. Matthew’s Church, Bedford, 
nie 

The Auxiliary Missionary Society, of St. John’s Church, Ports- 
mouth, N. H. 

The Female Auxiliary Missionary Society, of the same Church. 

The Female Missionary Society, of Christ’s Church, Cincinnati, 
Ohio. 

The Female Missionary Society, of St. Paul’s Church, Augusta, Ga. 

The Auxiliary Society, of St. Paul’s Church, Boston. | 

The Female Auxiliary Society, of the same Church. 


The remaining portions of the Report of the Executive 
Comunittee refer to Domestic Missions, which the limits as- 
signed to us do not allow us here to record. The loving hand 
which shall hereafter trace the history of our Missions in that 
Department, will find much that will greatly interest himself 
and the Church in Reports of the early efforts of the Society in 
that vast portion of the field. 


72 Appeal of the Executive Committee. 188. 


The Executive Committee conclude with the following 
appeal : 


“Tt has doubtless already occurred to the members of the Board 
that the Society has not yet accomplished any very satisfactory 
results; that it has been the means of effecting no considerable 
degree of good; and that the advantages expected, perhaps too 
fondly, at its organization, have as yet scarcely more than begun 
to be seen. 3 

“The Executive Committee must admit this to be true. The 
Committee are not disposed to enter largely into apologies or ex- 
planations of the causes of these limited results ; they are satisfied 
that. an examination of their books and papers will show that they 
have not slumbered on their post, and that what has fallen within 
their sphere of duty has not wanted a faithful and patient trial. 

“ Disappointments they have met with, calculated, as they con- 
céive, to try whether indeed their hearts were in the work, and 


whether they were willing to go on in humble imitation of their 


Divine Master, through evil report and good report, to work 
while it is day. 

“There are two causes, however, which have retarded, greatly 
retarded their labors, and these are vital: —Tuu want or MIssi0n- 
ARIES, AND THE WANT OF FuNDs. 

‘In some instances, where they could have sent Missionaries, they 
could not obtain the funds for their support; in others, where they 
had special funds, they could not obtain the Misssionaries.” 


The Committee next remark that it was hardly reasonable to 
expect that the Society, “ with only voluntary agents, with a new, 
large, and untried sphere of labor, and not very extensively en- 
couraged, should, in a few years, accomplish much; that expe- 
rience was being gained, and the path becoming plainer.” 

The Committee next express their sense of the unfairness of 
comparing, as some have done, the feeble efforts of this yet infant 
institution with those institutions which have already gained the 
lights of experience, and are in the full tide of successful operation. 
They suggest that a fairer method would be the comparison of 
the doings of this Society with the infancy of those other bodies, 
and in this connection remark : 


a. 


” 
Pes 5 Appeal of the Executive Committee. 73 


“The venerable Society in England for Propagating the Gospel 
in Foreign Parts, to which our Church is under such weighty obli- 
gations, and the equally venerable Society, in the same country, 
for Promoting Christian Knowledge, were long in attaining to the 
eminent efficiency in the cause of the Gospel which for a century 
has distinguished them. An institution, however, also in England, 
established in our own times, and the early history of which is more 
intimately known to us, may therefore be more properly adduced as 
aninstancein point. The Church Missionary Society, when it com- 
menced with the names of Gambier, Grant, the Thorntons, Wilber- 
force, Newton, Pratt, Scott, Venn, Wood, and Macauley, on its 
General Committee, men. who will not be accused of coldness in 
this holy cause, with a thousand pounds a year at their disposal, an 
amount larger than has ever at any one time been within the con-' 
trol of the Executive Committee, had no Missionary whatever in 
their service till the fifth year of the Society’s existence; and had 
their Committee been limited, as we are, to Missionaries of their 
own Church and country, they might have continued without labor- 
ers for many years longer, as they did not succeed in procuring such 
till 1809, the ninth year of the Society’s existence; and till that 
time were obliged to be content with the services of only three 
or four German Missionaries at Sierra Leone. And yet, who can look 
back upon the immense good effected, under God, by that Society, 
without feeling grateful that their Committee did not desist from the 
work, under all their discouragements? Though ‘they could not,’ as 
they stated in a passage of an early Report which the Executive Com- 
mittee think worthy of quotation, ‘charge themselves with deficiency 
either in zeal or diligence, they fear that the effect of their exer- 
tions will scarcely come up to the sanguine expectations of many 
by whom the difficulties attendant upon every new and important 
undertaking have not been duly weighed, nor the care and caution 
requisite in laying a firm and solid foundation fully considered.’ 

“This was in their first Report. In their second, they state 
that they had made earnest application to a numerous body of cler- 
gymen, in every part of the kingdom, without success.. They allege 
that the difficulties they met were the fear of an unhealthy climate, 
the different state of society at home, the prosperity and friendly in- 
tercourse of society, the estimation in which a good man is held, and 
the extensive sphere generally allowed for his labors, which not only 
form a strong bond of attachment to his native soil, but tend to 


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74. Appeal of the Executive Committee. | 1828. 


nourish a softness of mind and an indisposition to encounter, at a 
distance from home, the fatigues and hardships of a missionary. If 
to these causes, operating to the disadvantage of that Society, we 
add the general and very extensive call for the labors of our Clergy 
in stations near to their homes, affording, in almost every case, the 
prospect of usefulness, we shall find that more obstacles are to be 
removed, if removed they can be, than would readily be anticipated 
by those who look only to certain and successful ettorts as the price 
of their encouragement. 
x * *K * x xk sf 

“In concluding their Report the Executive Committee deem it. 
their duty respectfully but plainly to press it on the conscience of 
every member of the Board, whether he has, in his own particular 
sphere, done his part—as much at least as has been in his power to 
do—for the great cause of Christian Missions. Shall this institu- 
tion, founded for the noblest of purposes, by the authority of our 
whole Church, languish, a reproach upon its name, for want of such 
exertions as we can readily give? Shall those to whom a dispen- 
sation of the Gospel is committed decline any measure or neglect 
any means by which the work may be accomplished? If upon the 
whole Church les the obligation of freely imparting to others what 
has been freely given to them, is there not a deeper anda holier obli- 
gation upon us to whom the Church has committed the trust ? Zo 
the Clergy throughout the land we would send forth an earnest ap- 
peal to shake off their slumbers and arouse to this hallowed work. 
Let every one, not evidently called of God to some other scene 
and labor, task his judgment and question his heart whether he has 
not atalent for the Missionary work—a gift for the Missionary cause. 
There are often men who pass their lives in obscurity and com- 
parative uselessness, buried like precious ores in the bosom of the 
earth, who, once roused to the effort, are capable in other ‘spheres 
of doing more than tongue can express for the welfare of mankind, 
but who are often content to sink into the first seat that offers, if 
they can find in it their daily bread. Does the whole world afford 
a better field or a nobler reward for such a man’s exertions than 
belongs to him who goes, like the chosen Apostles of our Blessed 
Redeemer, to proclaim to the multitude of his brethren who are an- 
nually perishing in ignorance of that Redeemer, and to the misera: 
ble heathen of other lands—does the world afford a better field for 
human efforts than in turning these from darkness to light, and 


1928. Appeal of the Hxecutive Committee. TD 


from the power of Satan unto God? Or can there be a nobler re- 
ward than that promised to those who turn many to righteousness, 
that they shall shine as the stars forever and ever ? 

“ But if they cannot or will not go forth to this work themselves, 
call they refuse to exercise at home, in the sphere of their influence, 
all that influence in procuring the means which shall contribute, not 
to the luxury—he who takes up the Missionary scrip and staff takes 
leave of all luxury but that of doing good—but to the necessary 
support and comfort of those who forego all else? And if he does 
neglect to do this, how shall he answer it at the day of final account 
to Him who commissioned His ministers to preach the Gospel to 
every creatare? Shall the minister of Christ—of Him who shed 
His precious blood for all men—forego these efforts and be guilt- 
less ? . 

“Let the lay members of our Church, too, question their own 
hearts in this matter. Let them, with devout prayer for Divine 
guidance, ask themselves what is their duty? What is the duty 
of those who are commanded to do to others as they would wish 
others to do to them? 

“Brethren ! in our own country there are vast regions where a 
famine of the Word of Life is spreading moral death around—there 
are our own brethren—nurtured as we have been in the ordinances 
of God’s house and the instructions of His holy religion. Now re- 
moved far away from them, they come over their minds, in the sol- 
itude of the wilderness, as a pleasant dream which they would 
gladly realize. 

*K XK Xk x Ht x x 

“Think, too, of the miserable heathen, bowing down to hid- 
eous idols of wood and stone; think of the miseries which idolatry 
brings upon its ignorant, wretched votaries ; think of the multitude 
of delusions and consequent sorrows into which so many of our 
race are plunged, and ask yourselves whether you are doing to 
others as you would have others do to you, when, like the Priest 
and the Levite, you turn disgusted from the spectacle and pass 
by on the other side. 

“The Executive Committee would conclude their Report with a 
striking passage from a sermon preached before the English Church 
Missionary Society : : 

““We are attempting, in God's appointed way, to diffuse the 
knowledge of salvation, What though it may be objected that our 


76 Stated Meeting of Board of Directors. 1829. 


instruments are weak, ‘ Hath not God chosen the weak things of the 
world to confound the things which are mighty, that no flesh should 
glory in His presence ?’ | : 

“<¢ What though we have not met with immediate success ? Are 
we not laying a foundation on which much may be built successfully 
hereafter? But what have we to do with success? Success be- 
longs to God—duty is our part. Shall we sit still and make no 
effort for the conversion of our fellow-creatures? Can we acquit 
ourselves of guilt by waiting longer till we see a more favorable 
prospect ? Our duty, our indispensable duty, is to endeavor; nor 
are our endeavors at all less acceptable to God even though they 
may be unsuccessful. You are now called on to show your zeal 
for God: the work 1s begun—your duty is before you—the duty 


which you owe to your Redeemer, and to your fellow-creatures, to 


contribute as much as possible to His glory and their everlasting 
welfare.’ ”’ 


STATED MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, HELD IN THE 
SOCIETY'S ROOM, PHILADELPHIA, MAY 12, 1829. 


Preseni—lrom Massachusetts : Rev. Alonzo Potter, Edward 
A. Newton, Esq., Edward Tuckerman, Esq., and James Bow- 
doin, Esq. 

F roi New York: The Right Rev. Bishop Hobart, and Rev, 
Dr. B. T. Onderdonk. 

From New Jersey: The Right Rev. Bishop Croes. 

From Pennsylvania: The Right Rev. Bishop White, Rev. 
Drs. Abercrombie, Beasley, and Delancey; Rev. Messrs. Kem- 
per, Brinckle, Rodney, B. B. Smith, Clay, T. G. Allen, Van Pelt, 
Rutledge, and Weller; P.H. Nicklin, Esq., J. C. Lowber,, Esq., 
and O.N. Bancker, Esq. 

The meeting was opened with prayer by the Rial Rev. 
Bishop White, eh esident of the Society, who took the Bien 

The Report of the Executive Committee for the past year 
was presented, read, and referred to the Executive Committee to 
be printed. 

A Report of the same Committee, containing suggestions of 
certain alterations of the Constitution, which subject had been 
referred to the Executive Committee, at the last meeting, with 


a a oe ee” 


1820. Extracts from Report of Executive Committee. 77 


instructions to report to the present, was laid before the Board 
and read. ati: 

These suggestions were, by Lesolution, approved and adopted, 
and an attested copy of the Resolution ordered to be laid before the 
Society at its Triennial Meeting, to be heldin August following. 

We do not here transcribe the proposed alterations of the Con- 
stitution. ‘l’o complete the record respecting these amendments, 
it may be here stated that, at the Triennial Meeting of the Soci- 
ety, held in August, 1829, the Resolution of the Board, above 
mentioned, was submitted to the Society, and by it approved, 
and referred to the General Convention then in session. 

The General Convention adopted the amendments proposed. 
The Constitution as amended will appear in connection with the 
record of the proceedings of the Society of the above date. 

The following extract from.the Minutes of the Executive 
Committee was also laid before the Board: 


“ At a meeting of the Executive Committee, held on the 11th 
of May instant, it was 

“ Resolved, 'That, in the opinion of the Executive Committee, the 
period has arrived when the interests of the Society require that 
the time of some competent person be devoted to them, as Secre- 
tary and General Agent, and that they, therefore, recommend that 
the Board of Directors take immediate measures for that. purpose.” 


The action of the Board upon this recommendation of the 
Executive Committee was as follows: 


“ Resolved, 'That the consideration of the subject proposed by 
the Executive Committee as a permanent arrangement be postponed, 
and that the Secretary be requested to continue to discharge the 
duties of General Agent until the next meeting of the Society, and 
that, in consideration of his devoting his time, attention, and exer- 
tions for the advancement of its interests, he be allowed, in addi- 
tion to his salary, the sum of three hundred dollars.” 


The salary of the Secretary seems to have been previously 
two hundred and fifty dollars. 

The Treasurer, Thomas Hale, Esy., submitted his Report, 
and with it the resignation of the office of Treasurer. His Re- 


78 Report of the Executive Committee. hae 


port was referred, and his resignation accepted, with a vote of 
thanks for the faithfulness with which Mr. Hale had discharged 
his duties as Treasurer since the organization of the Society. 


GREEK MISSION. 


The following Resolution was adopted by the Board: 


“ Resolved, That all the Missionary stations heretofore appoint- 
ed by the Board, with the addition of some suitable place or places 
in Greece, be regarded as such by the Executive Committee.” 


The Rev. John J. Robertson * was appointed a Missionary 
of the Society. 

The above recorded facts do not give the exact starting 
point to which we trace back the history of the Greek Mission. 
This fact appears in the following extract from the Report of the 
Executive Committee to the Board at this meeting, May 12, 1829: 


“In September (1828) the Rev. John J. Robertson, of Maryland, 
haying expressed a willingness to be engaged in a Mission to the 
interesting region of Greece, the Committee believed that they were 
called to enter on the hallowed work of Missions to a people for 
whose sufferings our countrymen generally had felt great sympathy, 
who are descended from an ancient and Apostolic branch of the Church 
of Christ, but among whom, being without the Holy Scriptures 
and destitute of education, a corrupt form of Christianity prevails, 
except where even this had given place to infidelity. By the cireu- 
lation of the Scriptures, the Protestant Liturgy, the Homilies, and 
other standard religious works, their ignorance of the Gospel may 
be dispelled, and by the ministry of the pure Gospel, souls now 
destitute of its light may be turned from sin unto God. 

“'The Committee believe that Mr. Robertson possesses qualifi- 
cations peculiarly important to such a Mission, and enabling him 
to enter upon it judiciously, faithfully, and zealously ; and they are 
encouraged to hope that his appointment to this duty will be 
attended with valuable results to the people of that distant but 
interesting country. 


* This venerable servant of the Lord still lives, and will, it is hoped, be a 
joyful witness and partaker of the Jubilee Services, in October next, 1871. 


4 
; 


1829. Leport of the Executive Committee. 19 


“Mr. Robertson was appointed a Missionary Agent to visit 
Greece, inquire into the state of religion in that country, ascertain 
the disposition of the people for receiving Protestant Episcopal 
Missionaries, disseminate religious publications, and promote the 
knowledge of the Gospel by such means as shall be within his power, 
with the view, should he be favored by Divine Providence, to his 
settlement as a Missionary of this Society in that country. 

“Mr. Robertson, after visiting some of our principal towns to 
produce attention to his Mission, sailed from Boston on the Ist of 
January last, for Malta, and is expected to return to this country 
in the course of the present year. : 

“The Committee would here gratefully acknowledge that an 
appropriation was made to the Society for the Mission to Greece, 
by the American Bible Society, of fifty English Bibles, and $500 
to procure Holy Scriptures for distribution in Greece; and by the 
American Tract Society, of New York, of $150 for procuring trans- 
lations of that Society’s tracts into the modern Greek language, and 
of 2,500 pages of the Society’s tracts in French, or other languages, 
for distribution by Mr. Robertson. 

“A copy of the instructions given to Mr. Robertson is annexed 
to this Report.” * 


* Instructions to the Rev. J. J. ROBERTSON, on his departure for Greece. 


“REY. AND DEAR Sir: You have been appointed by the Executive Com- 
mittee of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, their Agent, to visit 
the interesting country of Greece, which has recently broken the fetters of 
Turkish and Mahometan oppression, and is now striving to take her former 
place among the nations of the earth, for the purpose of ascertaining its spir- 
itual condition, the disposition of its people for receiving Protestant Episcopal 
Missionaries, to disseminate religious publications, and to promote the knowl- 
edge of the Gospel by such means as shall be within your power, with the 
view, should you be favored by Divine Providence, to your settlement as a 
Missionary of this Society in that country. 

“In order to ascertain the spiritual condition of Greece, the Committee 
expect you will travel as extensively as circumstances will allow, particularly 
among the islands, in which the Committee have been led to beiieve there will 
be found greater sensibility on this subject, more intelligence, and a greater 
desire for knowledge. The same circumstances, it is understood, may be 
predicated, though in a less degree, of those parts of the Morea which are in 
the greatest degree relieved from the apprehension of war. It is feared, how- 
ever, that you will everywhere find much ignorance of the pure Gospel, and in 
too many instances a strong tendency to infidelity, | 

“In all these respects the Committee are desirous that you should make up 


80 Bishop Whites Letter. 1820. 


‘Mr. Robertson took with him the following letter of intro- 
duction to Foreign Ecclesiastics, signed by such of the Bishops 
of our Church as could conveniently be applied to, by which they 
have expressed their interest in the Mission in which he has 
engaged. 


“ To the Rev. J. J. Ropurtson, Missionary Agent to Greece, under 
appointment of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society 
of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of 


America. 


“The undersigned, taking under his consideration that, in acting 
under your commission, you may occasionally have an intercourse 
with some Bishop of the Greek Church, desires you to present to any 
such Right Rev. person the profound respect and the paternal affec- 
tion of a brother Bishop, in the forty-second year of his Hpiscopacy, 
and the President of the Society in whose service you are about to 
depart for Greece. 

“The undersigned recognizes the Greek Church as of Apostolic 
origin, and a sister of the Church in which he unworthily holds a 


from your own personal observation, rather than from the information of 
others, a deliberate and mature opinion, so that, in your communications to the 
Committee, which will be laid before the public, the Greeks may appear in 
their own actual character, and we be rendered able to understand their real 
necessities, with a view to the application of the best means of relief. 

“II. The Greeks, as is well known to you, have a Church constituted after 
what we believe to be the Apostolic model, and to be acknowledged by us as a 
sister Church, except in its corruptions of the Gospel. There is good hope 
that, through the benevolent efforts of Protestant Christendom, favored by Him 
without whose favor all efforts are vain, the darkness which has so long rested 
upon that Church may be dispelled. 

“You will, therefore, avail yourself of all suitable occasions for ascertaining 
their disposition to receive episcopally ordained Missionaries and, in particular, 
Missionaries of our own Church. In order to this you will state the advantages 
which this Church enjoys in its pogsession and public preaching of the pure 
Gospel, in its Apostolic and yet free Constitution, in its Scriptural Liturgy, and 
in the learning and active pastoral character of its clergy. 

“You might do an acceptable service, perhaps, by employing some leisure 
hours, when your knowledge of the language shall be sufficiently advanced, 
in preparing a summary tract on the Episcopal character of the primitive 
Churches, those of Greece in particular, and supporting your arguments by 
quotations from the Greek fathers, vip 

“JII. You will also improve every opportunity for disseminating religious 


1829. Bishop Whites Letter. — 81 


conspicuous station. He has for a long time felt a deep interest 
- in the oppression endured by certain portions of the said Church, 
under the Turkish Government, and in their persevering attach- 
ment to the faith handed down to them by our blessed Saviour and 
His Apostles. He has rejoiced in their late deliverance from that 
power, and has prayed that it may be permanently established, and 
that it may be productive of their increase in every grace and in 
all good works. 

“Tf any such Right Rev. person should administer to you any 
religious aid, or any personal kindness, in the discharge of your 
commission, let him be assured that it will be faithfully recorded 
and Pee filty remembered by the Church under oes authority 
you are about to labor. 

“Given in the city of Philadelphia, this twenty-second day of 
November, in the year of our Lord, 1828. 

“ (Signed) WILLIAM WHITE, 

“Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Common- 

wealth of Pennsylvania, and Senior Bishop of said Church 
in the United States. 

PHILADELPHIA, Dec., 1828.” 


publications. For this purpose the American Bible Society has generously 
placed, through this Society, at your disposal a number of copies of the Holy 
Scriptures, and a credit on the books of the British and Foreign Bible Society 
for a further and large supply. <A quantity of tracts, with the means of 
largely increasing the number, with like liberality, has been placed at your 
disposal by the American Tract Society ; to this has been added by our Society 
the sum of eighty dollars, which, if necessary, can be much increased, to enable 
you to purchase Prayer Books, Homilies, and other works containing the 
doctrines and principles of our own Church. These means will afford you very 
enlarged opportunities for usefulness, and tend, doubtless, to open to you the 
hearts of people, for whose instruction, it is seen, that strangers, who yet 
claim to be brethren, are so desirous: 

“Tn a word, you will use liberally every means of usefulness which it may 
please your and our Master, the great Disposer of human events, to place before 
you, looking to Him in continued, unwearied prayer for His guidance and 
blessing. Remembering, moreover, that much of the interest which ovr 
Church is hereafter to take in the cause of the dissemination of the Gospel 
may depend upon the combined zeal and prudence which you, its first Foreign 
Missionary, may exhibit—that, as you will be followed by the prayers of many, 
so the eyes of many, both among the friends and the enemies of Missions, will 
be upon you, and diligently follow your steps. 

“May He who has promised to pe with His. Ministers to the end of the 
world bless, preserve, and guide you.” 


6 


82 Proceedings of the Board. 1829. 


Several other Bishops subsequently joined in the above letter 
by affixing their signatures. Application would have been made ~ 
to all of hom for that purpose, had time allowed. 

The available funds of the Society were, by resolution, as 
usual, placed at the disposal of the ieetutive Committee until 
the next meeting of the Board. 3 

A Committee, consisting of Messrs. Nicklin and Lowber, was 
appointed to inquire into Ae cost of a lot of ground, and of a - 
building suitable to the accommodation of the Board of Directors 
and residence of the Secretary of the Society, and to report at 
the next meeting. ee 

The Board then went into an election of ten persons to con- 
stitute, with the Bishops of this Church and the Secretary and 
Treasurer of the Society, an Executive Committee. The follow- 
ing persons were chosen : 


Rey. James Montgomery, D.D., Messrs. J. C. Lowber, 
Jackson Kemper, C. N. Bancker, 
Peter Van Pelt, -Philip H. Nicklin, 
Benjamin B. Smith, John Farr, 
Edward Rutledge, Jacob Lex, 


Dr. Caspar Morris was chosen Treasurer; Messrs. John Read 
and C. N. Bancker, Trustees of the Permanent Fund, and J. C. 
Lowber, Esq., Auditor. 


The Board then adjourned to attend Divine Service at St. 
James’s Church. The sermon on this occasion was preached by the 
Rev. Alonzo Potter, then Rector of St. Paul’s Church, Boston, 
afterward Bishop of Pennsylvania. After service the Board met 
and passed the following Resolution : 


“ Resolved, That the thanks of the Board be given to the Rev. 
Mr. Potter, and that he be requested to furnish a copy of his sermon 
for the press.” 


Notrt.—We gladly record here the following extracts from this discourse, 
which might well be wholly reproduced, did space allow : 

“TIT ama debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians ; both to the wise, 
and to the unwise.’”’—Romang, i. 14. 

“To preach the Gospel then, is, in the ethics of Paul, but to pay a debt. 
It is not, in his view, a gratuity—the bestowment of which implies merit, 


1829. Report of the Executive Committee. 83 


The Executive Committee’s Report tothe Board, at this Annual 
Meeting, May 12, 1829, gives the following paicnlars additional 
to those which have Boon already noted: 


MEANS EMPLOYED TO INCREASE THE INTEREST OF THE CHURCH IN 
THE WORK OF MISSIONS. ‘ 


“In the expectation that the attention of the members of our. 
Church might be more fully drawn to the Society by such a measure, 


_ while the witholding of it would be scarcely, if at all,a sin. It isa debt, Its 
obligation is not less imperative than that of the ordinary duties of justice. 
No human law, ’tis true, can exactly define or enforce this obligation. Its 
discharge may and must be left to the dictates of individual discretion, When 
its claims conflict with those of common equity, they may, and of course should, 
give way. But still its authority is not on these accounts the less perfect or the 
less binding. With the Apostle, to love one’s neighbor as himself—to do him 
good as he has opportunity—to impart to him, therefore, if he have it not, the 
richest of all blessings, the blessing of the Gospel—this, we say, is, in the 
estimation of St. Paul, a duty, for the omission of which there can be at the 
bar of God no conceivable excuse. 

“ But who is this neighbor? To whom was this debt of the Apostle due ?« 
The text answers: ‘To the Greeks and tothe Barbarians, In the vocabulary of 
the Greeks, Barbarian, you know, was the name of all foreigners, so that, to’ 
be a debtor to the Greeks and Barbarians was to be a debtor to the whole 
world—or rather, since the Apostle speaks here as a Jew, to the whole Pagan 
world. Having committed unto him the Apostleship of the uncircumcision, 
sent forth by his once persecuted, but now adored Master, on the first mission 

to the Gentiles, he beholds in each of these Gentiles a creditor. They are 
sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death. To his keeping is confided 
the instrument which is to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to 
light, from the power of Satan unto God. Were he to prove unfaithful to a 
charge so momentous, woe must betide him. A_ necessity is laid upon him; he 
must preach the Gospel. And under the pressure of this conviction, how does 
he go forth? With what heroism? with what self-devotion? Though bonds 
and afflictions await himin every city ; though his course is one of weariness 
and painfulness, of watchings and hunger, of great and manifold perils, yet, no- 
wise daunted, he presses onward with a perseverance which nothing but the 
chains of the imperial Cesar can arrest—with an intensity of ardor which 
nothing but the hand of death can extinguish. 

“But who is this Paul? In what capacity does he here speak? As a 
private man? Nay, but as an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ! <As acting 
under a special commission? Nay, but as acting under that commission—the 
warrant of all ministerial authority—to preach the Gospel to every creature! 
As engaged in a work which is since complete? Nay, but as engaged in one 


84 | Report of the Execute Committee. 1829. 


the Secretary was directed by the Committee to visit the Dioceses 
of New Jersey, Maryland, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New 
York, while their respective Conventions were in session, to promote, 
by such means as might be in his power, the interests and views of 


which shall be complete only when the kingdoms of this world shall have 
become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ! This Paul, this Apostle 
to the Gentiles, this servant of the Lord Jesus Christ, my friends, he speaks in 
the name, as the representative of the Christian Church! The obligation 
which he here owns is her obligation. To preach repentance and the remission 
of sins among all nations, to labor for the extension of his faith ‘as much as 
in him is,’ to the full extent of his ability, to do. this now, while he has 
time, while he has strength, while he has opportunity ; this is the duty which, 
in behalf of the Church of God, in behalf of its every individual member, he 
admits, and, for our instruction, permanently records. 

“The Apostles, in the face of the Roman power, in defiance of an idolatry 
more inveterate than the world ever saw ; destitute of numbers, or talent, or 
influence ; aided only by the gift of tongues and the power of miracles, could 
go forth, and in three hundred years win the whole civilized world to Christ ! 
And shall we, with the power of acquiring all tongues, with the record of those 
same miracles to authenticate (which was all that the miracles themselves could 
do) the divinity of our commission; assisted, too, by so many, such peculiar 
adyantages—shall we stand and parley, and say it is not time! Not time! 
when Paganism seems smitten with infirmity, and tottering under the imbe- 
cility of old age! Not time! when the people of the Saints of the Most High 
seem going forth in serious earnest to take possession of the kingdom and 
dominion and greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven! Not time! 
when on every side we have proof positive and ocular, of the practicability 
and the success of their enterprise !—when the notes of Christian praise are 
heard from the cliffs of the North and the isles of the South; from the shores 
of the East and the wilderness of the West; when whole villages of Asia are 
seen subverting their idol temples, and tribes of Africa are heard calling out 
for ‘good men and good books ;’ when the power and efficacy of Christian 
truth are witnessed in the renovated lives and happy deaths of many a Pagan 
disciple ;* when from the dying lips of a Karaimoku, a Kespuolani, a Catharine 
Brown, there are heard, almost at this moment, the accents of Christian peace 
and hope,—is not this a time? When, in God’s name, will be the time? Are 
we to wait till more generations shall have descended into eternity? Are we 
to wait till God, wearied with our sloth, shall work some miracle to reproach 
our unbelief and supersede our labors? Are we to wait till, in literal truth, 
an angel of Heaven shall come forth; come to perform our ‘duty ; come to 
publish in our stead the everlasting Gospel unto them that dwell on the earth, 
and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people? Shall we—? No! 


* Reference is here made to facts contained in an appendix. 


eo is yes “y - 4 > Me | ame aig” eee oF 


—s) 


1829. Report of the Executive Committee. 85 


this Society. Several of those Conventions passed [Resolutions 
approbatory of the objects and designs of the Society, and re- 
commending it to the patronage of their Churches, | 

“A Resolution of the Board of Directors, adopted at the last 


While we have opportunity, let us do good—liet us do good unto all men. Now 
is the time, the accepted time! Ships are freighting for every idolatrous land ; 
access is opening to every wandering and benighted horde—they wait, perhaps 
they long for our arrival ; time precses; eternity is at hand; and soon we who 
can give, and they who might have received, shall stand together at the judg- 
ment-seat of Christ. Yea, brethren, the time is come; the set time to have 
mercy upon the heathen. — 

“ Say not that we forget the wants of our own country, of our own Church, 
We forget them not. We know that they are great ; that, if you will, they are 
paramount. Wesee them pressing up for relief from every quarter. We forget 
not that an eventful moral experiment—an experiment not only involving our 
national destiny, but the destiny, perhaps, of other nations, is here in progress ; 
that among us there has been committed, for the first time, to private benevc- 
lence, the task of Christianizing a great and ever-growing people. We do not 
overlook the difficulty of this task, nor deny that it has hitherto been grossly 
neglected. We often compare the extension of the population with the 
extension of religious means, and contemplate the appalling fact that 
the latter is greatly outstripped by the former! In one word, that since 
the formation of our Government the cause of Christianity has really 
declined among us ; that so great is the disparity between its advance and the 
advance of population, that it has lost more than one third of its entire relative 
strength ; that at this moment, and in this land, the asylum of conscience and 
the ark of civil freedom, there are destitute of the means of grace not less than 
four millions of souls, on whose virtue depend alike the welfare and being of 
our Republic; and that, at this rate, but sixty years need elapse before two 
thirds of our whole population will be found living without Christian 
instruction and dying without Christian hope. These are facts which we do 

not deny ; which we plainly see ; and as we see them, we confess that our hearts 
_ do tremble for our country—for the ark of God. 

“But what then? Because our brethren after the flesh have claims, does 
it follow that the Pagan has none? Because one creditor is pressing, must 
the rights of another be forgotten? Paul was a debtor to the Greeks, but did 
he, on that account, forget that to the Barbarians he was a debtor also? Our 
countrymen are suffering a famine of the Word of God, but does that diminish 
the necessities of the heathen? Still they frequent the altars of a cruel 
superstition ; still, to the number of five hundred millions, they pine under a 
bondage direr than was that of Egypt—a bondage, too, from which we alone 
can rescue them! Who, then, shall say,‘ There are wants at home; I can 
send nothing abroad?’ Let the one be done, let not the other be left undone. 
Pour the radiance of the Gospel on the dark places of your Republic; but 
remembering that without its borders there are places yet more dark ; remember- 


86 Report of the Executive Committee. 1829, 


meeting, requesting the Bishops and Ecclesiastical Authorities to 
recommend to the Clergy and Congregations to make an Annual 
Collection in favor of the Society, was, about the same time, for- 
warded to the said authorities. From these circumstances com- 


ing that it was for their illumination, also, that this Gospel was confided to your 
care; on them, also, let that radiance be poured. Nor wait, ere you do this, to 
see its last triumph at home! Before then, centuries may elapse. Imitate 
rather the example of the Apostles. Go first to the lost sheep of the house of 
Israel, and when they have received the invitation of mercy, then, whether they 
hearor whether they forbear, hasten onward. If, like the chosen people of old, 
they put it from them—if they listen to it only with dull and insensate hearts, 
then turn ye to the Gentiles. Leave behind you Bibles to instruct, ministers 
to exhort ; and your charity, having thus begun at home, let it continue and 
increase and advance. Its efforts are to be bounded only by your. ability, by 
the spiritual exigencies of mankind. The field is the world. You may not 
gather in a full harvest from one part of this field when the seed is not even 
sown in another! It must whiten together unto the harvest. You may not 
introduce the millennium into one nation, when in another the slightest prepa- 
ration for it has not been made! The intercourse subsisting between them 
must forever forbid this. If you would indeed accelerate the approach of that 
blest era, you must do as did the first Missionaries of the Cross. Having 
planted the Church in one place, you must hasten to another. Having made a 
lodgment in the enemy’s country, you must plant, at favorable points, your 


fortresses, and leave them to complete the conquest! Your labors must be © 


extended, and extended, and extended, till missionary stations shall twinkle, as 
radiant points, over all the expanse of Pagan darkness. Then may you look 
for the second advent of the Sun of Righteousness:. From these stations shall 
emanate a light waxing brighter and brighter. Fed by. Christian zeal and 
fanned by Christian prayers, they shall burn with an intenser heat ; they shall 
diffuse a more resplendent lustre, until at length the millennial day shall dawn, 
and over all the earth at once shall the glory of the Lord arise.” 
* i oe x % “ # # 

“In calling then upon my friends, my fellow Churchmen, to come forth 
and enlist in this enterprise, I appeal not merely to their love of Christ, I 
appeal not merely to their love of those for whom Christ died—I appeal to 
their love of self; to their love of their own Church. Do they venerate that 
Zion within whose pale their lines have fallen? Do they daily pray to Heaven 
that prosperity may be within her palaces? Would they labor and toil to 
make her the joy and praise of the whole earth? Let them supplicate—let 
them excite—let them foster the spirit of AZissions! Duty apart; if they look 
not with peculiar sympathy upon its objects ; if they doubt whether the Gospel 
enjoins it ;.if they regard as more important the extension of their religion at 
home; still, I say, let them cherish the spirit of Missions! It is the power 
which shall give impulse and momentum to this domestic religion. The bread 
which they cast upon the waters shall not go forth simply to bless other lands. 


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1829, Report of the Hxecutive Committee. 87 


bined, the Committee anticipated very favorable results; in which, 
however, they have been greatly disappointed—two or three 
Tr pckees. only, so far as is known to the Committee, having taken 
any further steps in relation to the subject. 4 


INDIANS. 


Reference is made to the employment of the Rev. Eleazer 
Williams as Missionary to the Oneida Indians settled on the Fox 
River, of Green Bay. They anticipated from him much assist- 
ance, through his influence with his brethren, to the Missionary 
and Education Establishment, which, after many disappointments, 
it was hoped would soon be in dacneeetil operation at Green 
_ Bay. 

_ Respecting the mission to Green Bay, the Oeannites reported 
success, after long delay, in obtaining governmental aid in the 


work ; assurance had been given that upon the ratification of the 


Preaty at Green Bay of 1827, the appropriation for educational 
purposes should be placed at the Society’s disposal. ‘ This ratifi- 
cation,’ the Committee remark, ‘“‘took place at the late session 
of Congress; and the Society will now be entitled to receive 
$1,000 for three years, and $1,500 a year thereafter, during the 
pleasure of the Government, for this purpose.” 
% 5 ae ae % % ane 
“The Rey. Richard Cadle, for several years our valued and 
highly useful Missionary. at Detr oit, has been appointed Missionary 
and Superintendent; Dr. Erastus Root, of New York, teacher; 
‘and Mr. Albert G. Ellis, farmer, and his wife housekeeper.” 


Ere long it shall return, infusing life and energy into the very vitals of their 
Church. Never was there a greater error than to suppose that this spirit is 
hostile to the domestic interests of our Zion. Hostile, my friends? Is not 
charity twice blessed? Does it not bless them who give as well as them who 
take? Is it not said that to them who lend unto the Lord it shall be repaid, 
even in this life, an hundredfold? And suppose we that this promise 
extends not to this great charity? No; send forth our Missionaries; levy 
contributions on every the feeblest of our Churches; excite them to feel; let 
their prayers and.alms ascend in one cloud before the throne; and if there be 
truth, I say not in the Bible, but if there be truth in the nature of man, there 
shall come back a shower of blessings to fertilize and make glad this city of 
our God.” 43 by he 


| 


88 Report of the Executive Committee. 1829. 


The Report of the Executive Committee, and the documents 
which were submitted with it, furnished full particulars respect- 
ing the proposed work among the Indians. | 

It is not thought best to enlarge here upon this branch of 
what was then regarded as a portion of the Foreign work. 
Wlioever shall review and record the history of Domestic Mis- 
sions—to which Missions to the Indians now more properly 
belong——will find it consistent with his purpese and directly in 
his way to enlarge upon the early efforts of the Church among 
the aborigines. 


ABSTRACT OF RECEIPTS SINCE THE 12TH OF MAY, 1828. 


Domestic Account... eee ss teh eens s divine 626 clnleet ante $530 25 


Foreign Account.: .23.ne esse ene Les eew ete 6 ole ei 61 50 
Green Bay Mission. 0... 05.005 ees ale ee «1 ole elevates ollela eee AT 50 
Greek Mission . 0.552. cic os win oo e's ce c.c stecele oo 0 oie Cikuie Siena 1,641 87 
General Mission Account... . 0.00.0. owas aces sues clslp ciate a t= 1,954 95 

$4,236 07 


BALANCES OF ACCOUNT MAY 12, 1829. 


Dr. CR. 
Domestic 22.7. Sos dene co's Bs, See a 0 ee ene ee $1,314 91 
Moreign. 2.053 Cals Say otis De eee cies es ee oe $836 86 
Green: Bay. .-.05. 0... oh sk aah ee 70 50 
Greek Mission... 0.000. cau i4 nombre oie eee ae ee 62 85 
General s>: 2... Levels | a0 Seo an a dee eee 326 24 
Balance in “l'reasury...% .'s 0s. ssa’ isd ele ate 18 46 


$1,314 91 $1,314 91 


PATRONS. 


The following persons have been added to the list of Patrons 
since the last meeting of the Board: 


Philip H. Nicklin, Esq., of Philadelphia, by his own subscription. 

Rev. John H. Hopkins, of Pittsburgh, Pa., by his own subscription. 

Rev, Charles Burroughs, of Portsmouth, N. H., by the Female Missionary 
Society of St. John’s, Portsmouth. 

Rey. George W. Doane, of Boston, by young ladies of Trinity Church, 
Boston, 

Rev. Edward Rutledge, of Philadelphia, by Auxiliary Society of Trinity 
Church, Philadelphia. 


+1829. Triennial Meeting, 1829. 89 


Rev. Alonzo Potter, of Boston, by Foreign Mission Society of St. Paul’s, 
Boston. 

Mrs. Caroline B. Laurens, of Charleston, 8. C., by her own subscription. 

Edward Tuckerman, Esq., of Boston, by his own subscription. 

James Bowdoin, Esq., of Boston, by his own subscription. 

Dr. Caspar Morris, of Philadelphia, by Foreign Mission Society, of St. 
Paul’s Church, Boston. 

Rev. George Weller, of Philadelphia, by Foreign Mission Society, of St. 
Paul’s Church, Boston. 

Joseph Marsh, Esq., of Amboy, N. J., by his own subscription. 

Rey. B. B. Smith, of Philadeiphia, by Foreign Mission Society, of St. Paul’s 

Church, Boston. 


MEMBERS FOR LIFE. 


Rt, Rev. Nathaniel Bowen, of Charleston, 8S. C. 
Mrs. Julia Rush, of Philadelphia. 


NEW AUXILIARY SOCIETIES. 


The Auxiliary Missionary Society of Emmanuel Church, New Castle, Dela- 
ware. | 
The Auxiliary Society of St. Andrew’s Church, Mt. Holly, N. J. 


All other matters contained in the full Report of the Execu- 
tive Committee relate to Domestic Missions. 

The meeting of the Board of Directors, May 12, 1829, to 
which the foregoing particulars relate, is said to have been 
“distinguished by uncommon zeal and unanimity.” 


TRIENNIAL MEETING, HELD IN PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST 138, 1829. 


From the Report of the Board of Directors to the Society, at 
this meeting, we gather the following: 


The Report, at its opening, states that— 


“The Board have cause to express thankfulness to God that 
some portions of that, cloud which rested on the Society’s path at 
the last meeting have been dispersed. Their path, however, is still 
beset with difficulties, and many obstacles are yet to be removed, 
which retard its usefulness and fetter the efforts of its friends. 
They trust to the wisdom of the Society and Convention of the 
Church that everything will be done which may give to the insti- 
tution its proper standing, increased means of usefulness, and 
cordial and general support.” 


-- i $As cate vies 
. ints Ore 7 ~ ca 


90 Report of the Board of Directors. 1820. 


AUXILIARY SOCIETIES AND PATRONAGE. 


“The number of Auxiliary Societies has always been aeaies 
now about twenty in all. Some have been added since the last 
Triennial Report; a few only regular in remittances; some, how- 
ever, very efficient helpers. : 

“Patrons, 83; Members for Life, 44; Annual Subscribers, 36.” 


AGENCIES. 


“The Board, deeming the appointment of a General Agent of 
great importance to the Society, at the meeting in 1828, authorized 
the Executive Committee, as soon as in their opinion the funds of 
the Society would allow, to appoint a Permanent General Agent, 
with suitable salary; meanwhile to make such arrangements as 
seemed most expedient for forwarding the purpose desired. The 
Secretary was requested to fulfil the duties of such an office as far 
as practicable. This he continued to do until the last meeting of 
the Board, when the necessity appeared to be so obvious that the 
Board directed the continuance of the office until the present meet- 
ing of the Society, and, in addition to his salary as Secretary, voted 
the sum of $300, being at the rate of $1,200 per annum. 

“As was expected, by the terms of the appointment, the Secre- 
tary and General Agent has devoted himself entirely to the business 
of the Society with unwearied zeal and with great ability. 

“As the measure was an experiment in which the future pros- 
pects of the Society were believed to be deeply involved, the Board 
deem it to be their duty to lay before the Society and the Conven- 
tion the effects which have resulted from it. During the last six 
months the exertions of the Secretary and General Agent have 
added to the funds between eight and nine hundred dollars, The 
expenses of the Agent have been three hundred and seventy dollars 
for the last three months, 

“Whether the Society will consider the fruits of this experiment 
such as to warrant the prosecution, or will be able to devise other 
measures for increasing the funds, is now submitted to them by the 

Board of Directors with great concern, but with great confidence 
in their wisdom.” 


FOREIGN MISSIONARY STATIONS. 


We omit here Missions among the Indians, inasmuch as such 


eT. 


1863! Report of the Board of Inrectors. 91 


Missions came shortly afterward to be regarded as Domestic 
Missions, and were placed under the head of Domestic Missions 
in the Report for 1830. 


The Board reported the following: 


“ Greece.—Appointment of Rev. J. J. Robertson as Missionary 
Agent. 

“Tiberia, W. A.—Appointment and death of the Rey. Mr. Oson, 
and the expectation of laborers from the Mission School in Mac 
ford, Conn. 

PEen0s Ayres.—The appointment of the Rey. Lot Jones; his 
departure for that field delayed by reason of the blockade of that 
port, and other circumstances. When these became more favorable, 
Mr. Jones had made other arrangements, and the object was neces- 
sarily laid aside.” 


PUBLICATIONS. 
Under this head are mentioned the Quarterly Missionary 
Paper, and the Sermons of the Rev. Dr. Wainwright and the 


Rey. Mr. Potter. 


“The Board believe that these publications have materially 
strengthened the cause of Missions among the members of the 
Church, and that they have been instrumental in increasing the 
disposition to furnish aid to the Missions of the Society.” 


FUNDS. 

“The Treasurer’s Report will give a view of the state of the 
funds, in which there is an alarming deficit. The uncertainty which, 
by the present mode of collections, must rest upon this branch of 
the Society’s means, it is feared, will ever form a clog upon any 
liberal and extensive operations. The Board are unable to calculate 
at any time upon funds for Missions until they are actually received 
into the Treasury. This is occasioned by their being obliged to rely 
upon voluntary, irregular, and often intermittent congreg gational 
collections and casual donations. 

“ Auxiliary Societies would at least furnish them probable 
ground upon which to build, and the deficiencies might then be 
readily covered, on an emergency, by the application of an Agent 
to wealthy congregations for collections, or by a public appeal. 


ee of 


Sep Report of the Board of Directors. 1829. 


“Tt becomes difticult, therefore, to make such engagements with 
Missionaries at a distance as will enable them to receive, regularly 
when due, their salaries; and yet, unless this can be done, a prin- 
cipal inducement to enter the service of the Society will be removed. 

“ At this period of the year, pressure and embarrassment have 
been annually felt, as the quarterly receipts have been much below 
the quarterly expenditures. It is hoped, therefore, that the Society 
and the Convention will assist the Board in devising and putting 
in operation some more efficient plan by which they may be enabled 
to make such estimates of their expected income as may authorize 
them to contract with Missionaries, in the reasonable expectation 


of being at all times ready to meet their demands and free them — 


from embarrassments, which have repeatedly made advances from 
other sources, necessary to save the drafts of the Missionaries from 
dishonor, 

“The Treasurer 1s now liable to be called on at any moment to 
meet engagements amounting to upward of $800; demands for 
some of which will no doubt bé made before he will be in funds to 
answer them; besides which the Society is in arrears to the Perma- 
nent Fund $316.64. 


‘A tax upon the funds of no small amount is furnished by the pub- — 


lication of the Reports, sermons preached before the Board, and the 
Quarterly Paper. These publications, the Board believe, have been 
productive of considerable advantage to the Society and the great 
cause of Christian Missions, so much so that the Board would be 
at aloss in what manner to supply the want of them. As they 
have hitherto been circulated gratuitously, there is no direct return 
to the Society of the amount of the cost. 

“The Board, in conclusion, would express their conviction that 
the interests of the Society have been, for some time past, after a 
long season of doubt and disquietude, gradually but slowly 
advancing. They see the spirit of missions unfolditg itself im the 
Church, and they cordially pray that her couneils may be inspired 
with such wisdom, and her members with such zeal and liberality, 
that she may be as conspicuous for her labors in this noble cause as 
she is for the purity and soundness of her doctrines and institu- 
tions.”’ 


The above gives account of some unpleasant experiences of 
our brethren connected with the administration of the Missionary 


* 
Die. 


1829. Leeport of the Board of Directors. 93 


affairs of the Church at an early day. Others who have come 
after them have had many such, and ofttimes repeated, to the 
great disquiet of their souls. 

The foregoing Report of the Board of Directors was accepted 
and adopted by the Society, and was by it laid before the 
General Convention, together with the proposed alteration in 
the Constitution of the Society, which the Board recommended 
by action taken at its Annual Meeting, in May of this year, and 
which was now approved by the Society. 

_ The proposed amendments of the Constitution were first 
adopted by the House of Bishops, and in the House of Clerical 
and Lay Deputies the documents were referred to the Standing 
Committee on the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, of 
_ which the Rev. Alonzo Potter was Chairman. 

That Committee made a full and interesting Report on the 
General Missionary work of the Church, as presented in the 
Triennial Report of the Society and the Annual Reports of the 
Board of Directors for 1827, 1828, and 1829. 

The Committee commended very highly the zeal and fidelity 
of the Board, and especially of the Executive Committee and 
Secretary ; mentioned with regret that the Society had not 
received that general and cordial support, even from the friends 
of Missions, which was so earnestly to have been desired. 

The Committee cordially approved the proposed changes in 
the Constitution; urged the importance of adopting systematic 
methods for raising money, and especially through Auxiliary 
Societies ; advised against the scattering of efforts by the adop- 
tion of an undue number of Missionary Stations; and toward 
the conclusion of their interesting Report, said: 


“When it is considered that this Society was formed by the 
General Convention, and operates under its immediate supervision ; 
when it is remembered that it was designed to present to all in our 


Note.—The Financial Statement, which was appended to the Report of the 
Board of Directors, does not appear in the copy before us; the omission is, 
‘however, rendered less important by the fact that in the next Annual Report 
(that for 1880) the whole amount of receipts is given from the date of the pre- 
vious Annual Meeting, May, 1829. 


-¥ spss 


94 Constitution as Amended. yap. 


Communion who are interested in Missions a reservoir where their 
liberality may collect and flow forth in streams to bless and make 
glad our sinful world; when it is remembered that, while none are 
coerced to join it or contribute to its funds, it still stands, an 
authorized channel through which the accumulated charities of the 
Church may be so guided as to subserve its own high interests; 
when these things are considered, your Committee cannot but look — 
upon this institution as one of the most important, they may say 
the most important, in our Church.” 


The Committee, at the conclusion of their Report, proposed 
the following Resolutions: 


“1, Lesolved, That it be recommended to all Protestant Episco- 
palians who contribute to the support of General Missions, to make 
the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society the channel of their 
contributions. 

“2. Resolved, That the Amendments of the Constitution adopt- 
ed by the Society, and sanctioned by the House of Bishops, be 
concurred in by this House. 

3. Lesolved, That it be recommended to the Board to take 
the earliest opportunity of sending a Missionary to Liberia, on the 
coast of Africa, and to restrict the foreign operations to that post 
and the others already established.” | 


These Resolutions were adopted. 


CONSTITUTION, 


AS AMENDED AUGUST, 1829. 


Art. I. This Institution shall be denominated the Domestic and 
Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 
the United States of America. 

Art. II. It shall be composed of the Bishops of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church; and of such other persons as shall contribute, 
by subscription, three dollars or more, annually, to the objects of 
the Institution, during the continuance of such contributions ; and of 
such as shall contribute at once thirty dollars, which contribution 
shall constitute them members for life. : 


1929, Constitution as Amended. — 95 


Clergymen who pay fifty dollars, and other persons who pay one 
hundred dollars, at one time, shall be denominated Patrons. 

It shall be the privilege of the subscribers to designate, on their 
subscriptions, to which of the objects, Domestic or Foreign, or to 
what particular Missionary object, they desire their contributions to 
be applied. If nospecification be made, the Board of Directors may 
apply them to either, or both, at their discretion. 

Arr. II]. The Society shall meet triennially, at the place in 
which the General Convention shall hold its session. The time 
of meeting shall be on the second day of the session, at five 
o’clock, P.M. 

A sermon shall be preached, and a collection made in aid of the 
funds of the Society, at such time during the session of the Con- 
vention as may be determined at the preceding meeting; the 
preacher to be appointed by the Board of Directors. 

Art. IV. The presiding Bishop of this Church shall be Presi- 
dent of the Society ; the other Bishops, according to seniority, Vice- 
Presidents. There shall be a Secretary, and twenty-four Directors, 
who shall be chosen by ballot at each meeting. 

Art. V. The’ Directors, together with the President, Vice- 
Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer, and Patrons, who shall have become 
such prior to the General Convention of 1829, shall compose a body 
to be denominated “The Board of Directors of the Domestic and 
Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 
the United States of America.” . 

They shall meet annually, on the second Tuesday in May, in the 
city of Philadelphia, or in some other place to be determined by the 
Executive Committee, except in the year of the meeting of the Gen- 
eral Convention, when they shall assemble on the second day of the 
meeting of the Convention, and in the place of the meeting thereof. 
Nine members of the Board of Directors shall be necessary to con- 
stitute a quorum to do business. 

The meeting of the Board of Directors shall always be opened 
by using a form of prayer consisting of a special Collect, to be 
prepared by the Presiding Bishop, and one or more Collects from ° 
the Liturgy. 

Art. VI. The Board may establish Missionary Stations, appoint 
Missionaries, and make all By-laws necessary for their own govern- 
ment, and for regulating the appointment of Missionaries, appro- 
priations of money, and the conducting of the Missions. Special 


96 Constitution as Amended. 1829. 

® 
meetings, a month’s previous notice being given, may be called — 
when necessary to fix new Missionary Stations, and to transact such 
business as circumstances may require; at which special meetings 
seven members, including the President, or one of the Vice-Presi- 
dents, shall be a quorum to transact business. 

The Board shall appoint an Executive Committee, and may at 
any meeting appoint such Committees as may be necessary or useful, 
and give to them such powers as, in the opinion of the Board, shall 
tend to the accomplishment of the objects of the Society; but no 
Missionary shall be appointed, either by the Board or by any Com- 
mittee to whom the appointment shall be assigned by the Board, 
unless the President, or the Bishop to whose Diocese he belongs, 
shall assent thereto. 

Art. VII. There shall be annually ape by the Board of 
Directors a Treasurer, and two members of the Society who, 
together, shall be termed Trustees of the Permanent Fund. 

The duties of the Treasurer shall be defined by the Board of 
Directors. 

The Permanent Fund shall be composed hereafter of such 
legacies and other sums as shall be specially given for that Fund. 

Arr. VIII. The Board of Directors shall take such measures as 
they may deem proper to establish Auxiliary Societies in any 
Diocese, with the consent of the Bishop of the same, to secure pat- 
. ronage, and to enlarge the funds of the Institution. 

Art. IX. In any Diocese or district where there is a Bishop or 
an Ecclesiastical body, duly constituted under the authority of the 
Convention of the same, for Missionary purposes, aid may be given 
in money; but the appointment of the Missionary shall rest with 
the Bishop or Ecclesiastical body aforesaid. He shall act under 
their direction, and shall render to them a report of his proceedings, 
copies of which he shall forward to this Society. 

Art. X. The Board of Directors shall annually publish, for the 
information of the members of the Church, a Report of their pro- 
ceedings, and shall, at every meeting of the Society, present a 
general view of the proceedings of the Board since the last meeting, 
which shall be referred to a Committee, to prepare for the consider- 
ation of the Society a Report, to be presented to the Convention 
during its session, as the Report of the Society. : 

Art. XI. Alterations of the Constitution may be proposed, 
either by the Soiciety or by the General Convention, at their 


1829. Officers. 97 


respective Triennial Meetings; but no proposed alteration shall be 
_ adopted, unless by the concurrent vote of the two bodies. 

Art. XII. It is recommended to every member of the Society 
to pray to Almighty God for His blessing upon its designs, under 
- the full conviction that, unless He direct us in all our doings with 
His most gracious favor, and further us with His continual help, we 
cannot reasonably hope, either to procure suitable persons to act as 
Missionaries, or expect that their endeavors will be successful. 


OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. 


President : 
Rt. Rev. William White, p.v. 


Vice Presidents : 


Rt. Rev. J. H. Hobart, p.p. 
«A, V. Griswold, p.v. 
o R. C. Moore, p.v. 
John Croes, D.D. 
N. Bowen, pD.p. 
P. Chase, p.p. 
a T. C. Brownell, p.p. 
ss H. U. Onderdonk, p.p. 
“¢ William Meade, p.p. 
All the Bishops are, ex officio, members of the Board of 
Directors. 


Directors: 


(By paying $50 previous to August, 1829.) 


Rev. J. Abercrombie, p.p., Rev. W. Jackson, 
peel: G. Allen: “ §. Johnston, 
“¢ HH. Anthon, “¢_ J. Kemper, D.p., 
“ G. Boyd, 7 Wm. I. Lee, 
“ F. Beasley, v.p., stra Milner: D.D., 
*~ GT. Bedell, _“ J. Montgomery, v.D., 
ee. Daury,: «Wm. C, Mead, 
22). Butler, eax. . Morean, 
“8S. C. Brinckle, “  R.S: Mason, 
“ C. Burroughs, etd. Moss, 
“« B.C. Cutler, “<  $. Nichols, 


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«J. P. K. Henshaw, ave ol Sy Sy Aeneas ae 
Stet beds ee Evia ; 60. Bi Vanee tee | 
“J. H Hopkins, Po dial ee Wallies Oakes a 
5 « Rh. A. Henderson, “ ©. H. Wharton. D.D., URAL 
; “ TL. S Ives, «© G. Wellera eye 
“ §. F. Jarvis, p.v., : ¢: B. Wisonp.o eee 
‘ E. Andrus, Bad 3 st Ge Seal eames Marsh: Esq., 
es J. Bowdoin, Esq.,. Dr. C. Morris, | 
= EK. Burd, Esq,, ae P. He Nickiin,; Baqi 8 
. Jo: Herbert Esq., _E. A. Newton, Esq., 
: W. Jay, Esq., +) Mr. John Pintard, es 
F.S. Key, Esq., ow & George Pomeroy a) 
- A. C. Magruder, Esq., KE. Tuckerman, Ba 
Directors chosen 1829. 
Maine, R. H. Gardiner, Esq., 
S. Greenleaf, Esq., 
New Hampshire, Mr. 8. Pierce, : . 
Massachusetts, Rey. T. Edson, 3 
Vermont, Rey. A. Bronson, 
res eee oi 
Connecticut, Rev. N.S. Wheaton, 


New York, 


New Jersey, 
Pennsylvania, 


. 


“© H. Croswell, 
“« -B. T. Onderdonk, p.p,, 
Mr. Floyd Smith, : 
Rey. J. Croes, . 7 
Rev. J. C. Clay, he i 
Rey. 8S. H. Tyng, 
J. C. Lowber, Esq., 
Jacob Lex, Esq., 
C, N. Bancker, Esq., 


iv nee ae 
’ P ‘ Wes ‘ ie See 
¥ : ry “ 


i Officers and Members. 


John Farr, 
L. R. Ashurst, 
James 5. Smith, 


Delaware, Rev. I Pardee, 
Maryland, Drie vey. t. VV yatt, D-D., 
Virginia, Rev. William Meade, p.p., 


6K. C. McGuire, 
South Carolina, Rey. C. E. Gadsden. 


Patrons: 

Rev. 8. B. Paddock, Mrs. E. Kohne, 
«William Jarvis, «<M. Markoe, 
« William Croswell,  M. Banyer, 
“ G. Y. Morehouse, Miss A. Jay, 
“6G. P. Melilvaine, Mrs. C. Lawrence, 

Mrs. 8. Dehon, : “ 6S. Russell, 


Mrs. M. C. Gregory. 


Life Members: 


Mrs. E. Ashurst, Philadelphia., 
Rev. J. L. Bryan, 5 
Rt. Rev. N. Bowen, Charleston, 8. C., 
~ Rev. J. Bristed, Bristol, R. L., 
Mr. Samuel Cox, Philadelphia., 
“¢ James Cox, ie 
Mrs. E. A. Clarkson, Charleston, 8. C., 
Rey. Orange Clark, Saratoga Co., N. Y., 
L. J. Donaldson, Esq., Baltimore, Md., 
Rev. B. Dorr, UITICaLeN Ge) | 
** Manton Eastburn, New York., 
Mr. John Gray, near Fredericksburg, Va., 
Rey. C. E. Gadsden, Charleston, 8. C., 
“A. Gibbs, < 
Mr. Thomas 8. Grimke, % 
Mrs, E. Gates, i 
“ H.R. Hamilton, Beaufort, 8. C., 
Mr. Thomas Higham, Charleston, 8. C., 
eno). E. Huger, % 


Miss M. E. Hasford, 6 


100 Members and Execute Committee. 1829. 
Mr. William Heyward, St. Luke’s, 8. C., 
Miss Harris, Charleston, 8. C., 
Mr. Israel Kinsman, Philadelphia., 
Miss M. A. LaBruee, Georgetown, 8. C., 
Joseph P. LaBruce, oy 
Rey. M. H. Lance, as 
“~ H: Pe Powers, Newark, N. J., 
Mr. Thomas Ryerson, Philadelphia., 
: “ Gil. Robertson, is 
« J. Rapeley, : Charleston, 8: C., © 
Mrs. E. Rapeley, aaa 3 
Mr. J. Rush, Philadelphia., 
John Read, Esq., . 
Rev. J. Spencer, Easton, Md., 
Mr. Silas Sprague, 
Rev: H. Smith, ~ Augusta, Ga., 
‘ T Strohe, Greenfield, Mass., 
Mr. J. M. Head, 
, “ HH. Sybert, Philadelphia.,. 
Miss E. Turner, New York., 
“ J. B. Turner, | = 
_ Mrs. E. Waters, Philadelphia., 
Mr. John White, a i 
“« §. Warren, Troy, M.aY,, 
‘« Fe Withers, Georgetown, S. C., 
“ R. F. Withers, pe 
A. Withers, ¥ 
tisk Ward: . 
“ ¥F. M. Weston, FS 
Mrs. Waring, ae 


Executive Committee: 


Rey. Dr. Montgomery, P. H. Nicklin, Esq., 
“Dr. Kemper, Charles Wheeler, Esq., 
“Geo. Boyd, Dr. C. Morris, 

P Van Pelt, Lewis R. Ashurst. 


Rev. Edward Rutledge, Secretary:and ex officio member of the 
Executive Committee. 

Charles N. Bancker, Esq., Auditor, and ea officio member of the 
Executive Committee. 


a Crisis and Appeal. 101 


Jacob Lex, Esq., Treasurer, and ex officio member of the Execu- 
tive Committee. | 


“A PN, Bancken Wsq., | Trustees of the Permanent Fund. 


Shortly after this Triennial Mecting, it is thought, a pam- 
phlet, bearing date 1829, was published (whether upon anything 
more than individual responsibility does not appear) in advocacy 
of the claims of the Society. Its title is as follows: 


“CRISIS 


“ In the affairs of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church in the United States of America, and 


—& AN APPEAL 


TO EPISCOPALIANS ON ITS BEHALF.” 


It is a pamphlet of fifty-four printed pages, octavo, and was 
manifestly written by some one whose heart was inflamed with 
zeal for the cause of Missions, and who greatly lamented the 
general deadness of the Church in respect to its claims. It is 
thoroughly methodical and clear in its statements and arguments 
and drawn to a keen edge, which cuts deep into the joints of in- 
difference and sloth. 

We give the following extracts: 


“To a diligent student of the New Testament, and of the history 
of the immediate successors of the Apostles, the idea of a Christian 
Church destitute of the elements of extension and enlargement, 
could not possibly occur; or if the state of facts should ever 
suggest such an idea, it would be inseparable from the conviction 
that that Church had strangely departed from the spirit of the 
earliest friends and the brightest ornaments of the religion of 
Christ. And yet, except for a very short season immediately subse- 
quent to the Reformation, this was the sad aspect presented by 
most Protestant churches down to a period within the memory of 
many now living. 

“The grievous sin of departure from the spirit of primitive 
Christianity, and of forgetfulness of the express command of the 
risen Saviour, had brought the blight and curse of spiritual barren- 


102 Appeal. — 1829. 


ness upon nearly the whole of the Lord’s heritage. It is speaking, 
therefore, in terms of reproach and bitter lamentation, justly 
merited by almost all the daughters of the Reformation, when 
we say that our own Church, at the opening of the present century, 
was almost entirely destitute of the Missionary spirit. This lethargy, 


alas! hath cleaved to us somewhat longer than to others. And, 
unhappily, its guilt in our case must be confessed, in many respects, 


to be very peculiar and very aggravated, inasmuch as the two 
Churches which exhibited the most striking exception to the above 
remarks, and whose successful enterprises were electrifying the 
entire Christian world, stood no less intimately related to us than 


as an acknowledged sister, and as, our mother beloved. Before the 


Protestant Episcopal Chnres of the United States had secured 


independent existence, the Episcopal Church of the United Brethren 


had been some years successfully engaged in Foreign Missions. 
Limited as their numbers were, to a few scattered settlements of 
impoverished exiles, they had made many solitary and desolate 
places vocal and glad with the sound of the Gospel. And one 


VENERABLE SOCIETY, at least, in our mother country, had shed a 


sacred influence abroad over many fair portions of this western 
world by its efforts to PROPAGATE THE GosPEL of our Lord Jesus 
Christ. It seems, indeed, most extraordinary and inconsistent, that 
an infant Church like ours, owing almost its very existence to Mis- 
sionary effort, should not, from the first, have been distinguished for 
its Missionary zeal. The fact, however, is recorded with so much the 
deeper regret and humility, that scarcely any denomination of 
Christians, speaking the English language, has been so indifferent 
to Missions as our own. Up to this moment we have but one 
small infant station amongst the heathen, and that chiefly for the 
purposes of education, at Green Bay, and not a single Foreign Mis- 
sionary on any distant shore, 

“In order that a due impression may be made of the very 
extraordinary nature and the aggravated guilt of this indifference 
and neglect, a great variety of considerations must be passed in 
review before us.. The Episcopal Church, as we have already 
observed, is the daughter of a Missionary Church; she owes, if 


not absolutely her existence, yet much of her early foothold and 


present prosperity, to the fostering care of a most interesting 
and noble Missionary institution. To provoke her to love and 
good works, the example was. before her of a Church much 


- 1029, 3 Appeal. : 1038 


more scattered, feeble, and poor than herself, the energy of 
whose devoted and unwearied sons had gathered trophies to 
magnify the triumphs of the Cross upon the frozen shores of 
Greenland and amid the retired and savage wilds of Southern 
Africa. The Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States 
invested herself in the robes of independent power at the most 
eventful crisis in the history of the world. The meetings of our 
first effective General Conventions were nearly contemporaneous 
with some of the most stupendous moral experiments by which the 
Lord God Omnipotent was, once for all, exhibiting to the world the 
disastrous and terrible effects of philosophic contempt of the 
Christian religion. She had scarcely begun to feel her strength 
when the wisdom ot the same Supreme Ruler of human events had 
filled the minds of His chosen servants in Great Britain with the 
magnificent designs of Sunday School, Bible, Tract, and Missionary 
Societies, by whose energies, separate, yet wonderfully combined, 
the moral warfare has been turned, with most triumphant results, 
upon the strongholds of the kingdom of the enemy. 

‘How then did it come to pass that. the whole Episcopal com- 
munity in this country looked upon these movements with total 
inaction? Was it because no sympathy was felt on this side of 
the Atlantic in the eventful struggle going forward on its eastern 
shores? Was it because we had no commanding minds to catch 
the impulse and to communicate it to others? Was it because we 
lacked wealth and other means for the successful management of 
benevolent institutions ? Nay, we had minds of the first order to 
grasp and estimate the bearing and tendency of political specu- 
lations; but no heavenly impulse inclined them to consecrate 
their powers to the service of the spiritual kingdom of the beney- 
olent Redeemer. We had wealth enough to have originated and 
sustained Domestic or Foreign Missions upon a scale of moral mag- 
nificence vastly more extended than that upon which the Missions 
of our brethren of the Moravian Church were conducted.. And from 
the West and the South there came a cry of destitution; and from 
degraded Africans and Indians amid and around us, a ery of spirit- 
ual wretchedness, loud and piteous enough to have touched hearts 
of stone, and yet nothing was done, nothing was attempted.” * 


* On the journal of General Convention, Tuesday, September 18, 1792, the 
following may be found: 


. Aes Wye eo rm cana) Vg tea yt te” 


104 —— Appeai. ie 120, 


The writer of the pamphlet then goes into a calculation of what 
it might reasonably have been expected, would have been accom- 
plished by the Church, from the year 1820 to the year 1829, esti- 
mating the number of the clergy at three hundred, or of the 
parochial clergy at two hundred and fifty, with parishes embrac- 
ing fifteen thousand communicants. He claims that the annual 
income of the Society should, at the latter date, have been 
TWENTY OR THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, whereas he says the 
average receipts have not equalled FirrEEN HUNDRED a year. 

The writer goes on to remark as follows: 


“Tt is worthy of particular observation that when the Moravians 
sent forth their first Missionaries, the congregation consisted only 
of about six hundred poor, despised exiles; yet this inconsiderable 
company made such noble and extensive exertions for the con- 
version of the heathen as reflects. not only the highest honor on 
themselves, but indelible disgrace on all the rest of the Christian 
world. In the short period of eight or nine years they sent Mission- 
aries to Greenland, to St. Thomas, to St. Croix, to Surinam, 
to the Rio de Berbice, to the Indians of North America, to 
the negroes of South Carolina, to Lapland, to Tartary, to Algiers, 
to Guinea, to the Cape of Good Hope, and to the Island of Ceylon. 


«<The President also reported that the two Houses had agreed to appoint 
a joint Committee for preparing a plan for supporting Missionaries to preach 
the Gospel on the frontiers of the United States.’ 

“ But since by the Journal of Friday, Sept. 18, 1795, this plan seems to 
have been referred to the different State Conventions, since no General Society 
appears to have been contemplated, since Foreign Missions did not at all enter 
into the plan, and since nothing effective was ever done, it is hoped that the 
language which has been used above will not be considered too strong. 

“ That there were, from the first, individuals amongst us impressed beyond 
others with the importance of Missionary exertions, disposed to mourn over 


the general state of things around them, and anxious to ayail themselves of - 


every opportunity of directing the public mind to this momentous subject, 


there can be no question. The Records of the Church Missionary Society for 


1816 or 1817 are inscribed with very touching testimonies of the willingness 
of the venerable President of our present Socicty, at that early day, to do all 
in his power to promote this sacred causc; as well as of the enlightened and 
fervent zcal of the Bishop of the Eastern Diocese. In truth, few, if any, of 
the Pastoral Letters or Diocesan Addresses of cither of these distinguished 
prelates omit the opportunity of pressing home the claims of this subject 
upon the hearts of Churchmen. 


ef 


ee SEO on 


~ 
te let es 


a ae Appeal. 105 


“The example-of the Church Missionary Society is of much 
more recent date, and may, therefore, be considered more exactly in 
point. It was organized in 1800, by a few members of the Estab- 
lished Church, particularly in reference to the wretched condition 
of the heathen in Africa and in the East. For the first ten or 
twelve years its income was extremely limited, not exceeding nine 
thousand dollars a year, upon an average of thirteen years. And 
yet, at its eleventh anniversary, it had in its employ, of all descrip- 
tions of persons, fifty in Africa and three in New Zealand, besides 
six candidates under the care of the Rev. Thomas Scott. In 1812 
special efforts were made to increase the funds of the Society upon 
the plan of an extensive organization of Associations. This was 
commenced with great spirit by the voluntary efforts of distin- 
guished clergy, with such extraordinary success, that the income 
of the Society was increased, during the first year, from ten 
thousand six hundred dollars to fifteen thousand four hundred, and 
the very next, to the almost incredible sum of fifty thousand dollars. 

2 *K x *# + * XK 

“The views above exhibited have been urged with great reluc- 
tance, but it 1s believed that, upon a calm review of the whole case, 
it will be discovered that they are abundantly confirmed by facts. 
The perfect candor and impartiality, however, with which these re- 
marks are intended to be penned, may be thought by some to require 
the same fair and dispassionate estimate of various circumstances 
which in some measure account for the lack of Missionary enterprise 
amongst Episcopalians, without attaching such grievous blame to 
their Pins clergy and active laymen. 

* *K XK ok 2* ** x s 

1. From the peculiar connection of the Episcopal Church in 
the colonies with the mother country, a more stunning and disas- 
‘trous influence was felt through all her borders, from the Revolution, 
than by any other denomination in the land. _The prosperity of 
most of these was steadily progressive, even through the darkest 
hours of the Revolutionary struggle. If otherwise, they were sufl- 
ciently compact and energetic to take instant advantage of the 
preéminently favorable and happy period of returning peace; 
whereas several extensive portions of the Episcopal Church are 
so far from having emerged trom the utter overthrow of their early 
establishment, brought about by the Revolution, that many fair 
and stately edifices remain to this day unrescued from the dominion 


106 Appeal. 


of the foul and doleful creatures which have taken possession of 


their ruins. 
* x x se * x * 


“9. Tt will easily be perceived from the above general statement : 
that a very great share of that susceptible and active piety 
amongst us, which otherwise might have manifested itself m zeal 
for Missions, was fully occupied by the desolations within the 
Church. me | | 

sk x xf ok xk *K xk 

“3, Since the renewal of brighter auspices in our Church, 
another circumstance has operated immeasurably to the detriment 
of our Missionary efforts. The number of our clergy is extremely 
small, altogether inadequate, indeed, to our own pressing home 
demand. : 

x *k * x x * * 

“4. In addition to these causes, it becomes necessary to name 
another, on account of its pervading and deeply pernicious influ- 
ence, which, however, can scarcely claim rank with those which are — 
purely extenuating. Exclusive and very undue devotion to measures 
entirely Diocesan has proved a fruitful cause of the comparative 
languor and inefficiency with which every general object of our 
Church has been prosecuted. All eyes and hearts have been - 
occupied with the spiritual destitution immediately within range of 
observation. 

“We are perfectly free to admit that, according to ordinary 
worldly estimates of the duty of Churchmen, these considerations 
go far toward furnishing a satisfactory excuse for their undeniable 
deficiency in Missionary zeal. And fully aware are we that as 
many as confine their views to the claims of our own country, and 
fix their eyes solely upon the extenuating circumstances above 
unfolded, will be slow to perceive the force of those Scriptural 
rules which, in truth, should be considered finally decisive in the 
case. According to this uncompromising, Divine standard, we 
believe that NOTHING can absolve us from the guilt of forgetting or 
disregarding the command of the great Head of the Church. If it 
be said that our Clergy were few ; so were they, we reply, when the 
Apostles became the dauntless and successful Missionaries of the 
Cross. If still it be insisted that our parishes were scattered and 
feeble, in most places groaning under the insupportable burden of 


a ao seg OC een, «oe I 6 eae ae Mie oe 
a, gee AR NF iors a whee 


i 


“1829, Appeal. . 107 


their own home wants, the case, we reply, was far more discouraging 
when the Moravians began their noble career. 
x *K *K xk # tk *K 

“We return, then, with increased conviction of its truth, to the 
position that wAaNrT oF A MIssIONARY SPIRIT IS THE ONE SOLE 
DEPLORABLE CAUSE OF OUR WANT OF SUCCESS IN THE MISSIONARY 
ENTERPRISE. 

“Had the Missionary spirit been as rife amongst Episcopalians 
as amongst other Christians; or rather, rising far superior to so 
debased and miserable a standard, had they possessed it in the 
perfection of its holy influence, as it burned inthe bosom of the Lord 
Jesus, or even of His devoted Apostles, it is clear to demonstration 
that nothing could have repressed its various manifestations, Let 
the question be put, then, Where are the private Christians amongst 
us who are bending the whole aim and purpose of their lives so as to 
earn everything, to save everything, and to give everything in their 
power to promote the cause of Missions? Where are our men of 
wealth, willing each to support one, two, or three Missionaries, as 
many might do from their very superfluities ? Where are our teach- 
ers and mechanics who are ready to sell all and follow their Mas- 
ter’s call upon some glorious enterprise of mercy to benighted and 
forsaken corners of our dark world? Where are our aspirants for 
orders who, in the ardor of their earliest love, have purposed to part 
with every endearing attraction of home and native land, and to lay 
out the entire scheme of their future lives for Missionary toils and 
sacrifices? Where are our settled pastors, who are writing, preach- 
ing, and praying, week after week, with such Divine and primitive 
ardor as to electrify the Church through all her borders with their 
excelling zeal? Have we any voluntary agents disposed to adjust 
their plans for relaxation and health so as to promote the ends of 
this Society ?. Can private, social, or public meetings for prayer 
that the blessing of the great Head of the Church may descend upon 
our Society, upon.its counsels and its Missionaries, once a month, or 
even less frequently, be found in all or many of our parishes ? 

“The Missionary spirit is a stirring spirit, emphatically a spirit 
of deep feeling and strenuous action. Did it exist, it could not 
remain inactive, and the might and majesty of its goings forth 
could not be concealed. We are parties concerned in the guilt of 
this indisputable lack of Missionary zeal, and conscience compels us 


108 _* Appeal. nits | tae 


to make our own confession, at the same time -that it urges us fear- 
lessly to bring forward the ike accusation against the Church at 
large.” : ; 

At the end of the Appeal from which the foregoing extracts 
are taken, the following Norn is appended: 


“In the course of the foregomg discussion, several conjectural 
estimates are inserted of the average income of the Domestic and 
Foreign Missionary Society, from its first institution until the pres- 
ent time, and also of the total amount of its receipts and expen- 
ditures. They were based upon abstracts from the accounts of the 
Treasurer, as published in the Triennial Reports of the Society, and 
were known, particularly in respect to the years 1820 and 1821, to 
be defective and very far within the actual amounts. | 

“For the satisfaction of those readers whose leisure will hardly 
permit the compilation of such a summary, with all its deficiencies, 
it is here appended : 


RECEIVED. 
General. Domestic. Foreign. Total. 
TOR 2 20s uk teens eee cee sete ne $3,991 $471 $1,406 $5,868 
PL RR EN CE ee rte 1,815 3 274 2,092. 
Bois tdci Cae ae ee ees 1,431 — — 1,481 
Re ante Wee Guat cat tadecan bee Arden 1,764 — — 1,764 
CRW pes Beealig aed Miners Men chy 2 a es 4 1,100 215 480 1,795 
$12,950 
/ 
EXPENDED. 
General, Domestic. Foreign. Total. 
LEB OAS oi ein at rite es Gite stra Gicey's $1,735 — $3 $1,738 
iL MOR Wat AERP OR ote hein sea SS 1,693 — 1,693 
TPP HR ei NLY Fy Ris EM tal NP 2,049 _~ — 2,049 
PL Re RRR AD Sn inA soc ro Rd IS. 3,208 — — 3,208 
| Fy af Cs RGR yeti Ba Cf Sue aN: ALS 688 $962 136 1,786 
$10,474 


We do not stop now to verify the above statement of Receipts 
and Expenditures. It is purposed to recapitulate the sums total, 
so far as we can gather them, at the close of 1835, the date of 

the adoption of the new Copsibanien: 


CHAPTER IV. 


From tae Trrenntat Mererine, Aveust 18, 1829, ro tae Trren- 
ntAL Merrine, Octoser 18, 1882. 


Tue next Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors was 
held in the city of Philadelphia, May 11, 1830. 

Bishop White presided, as he had done at all previous meet- 
ings of the Board and of the Society. 

Present, The Right Rev. Bishops White and Hobart; the 
Rey. Drs. Abercrombie, DeLancey, Kemper, Montgomery, and 
Onderdonk; Rev. Messrs. T. G. Allen, Boyd, Brinkle, Bedell, 
Doane, Henshaw, A. Potter, Robertson, Rodney, Clay, Tyng, 
N.S. Wheaton, Mead, and Smith; and Messrs. Lex, Lowber, 
Newton, Nicklin, and Dr. Morris. 

The Right Rev. Bishop White opened the meeting with 
prayer. 

The Executive Committee presented a report, which having 
been read, on motion of Bishop Hobart, it was 


“« Resolved, That this Board, without expressing an opinion as to 
the expediency of extending the sphere of Foreign operations of the 
Society, direct the Executive Committee to publish such parts of 
the Report just presented as they may deem advisable.” 


The Report of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Brownell, to the Board, 
concerning his tour to the South and West, as Missionary Agent 
of the Board, was then read. 

The following Resolutions were adopted in relation to this 


Report : 


“ Resolved, That this Board has heard, with high interest, the 
Report of the extensive, arduous, and valuable journey of the Rt. 
Rev. Bishop Brownell ; and are deeply impressed with the spiritual 


110 Proceedings and By-Laws. Boo) 


wants of the immense population which is filling the valley of the 
Mississippi, and which make a powerful spre to the sympathy 
and beneficence of the friends of the Church. 

“ Resolved, That the Report of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Brownell be 
referred to the Executive Committee to publish such parts thereof, 
in the next Missionary Paper, as they may deem expedient.” 


[This Report. was subsequently published; it properly 
belongs to the Domestic Branch of the Missionary work, and 
therefore it is not, in any of its particulars, reproduced here. Our 
veneration, however, for the memory of the author would not 
allow us to pass it by without mention. | | 

The Report of the Treasurer was read, from whidh it appeared 
that the amount received since the 11th May, 1829, the date of 
the last Annual Meeting, was $10,827.32, and that the amount 
of cash in the Treasury was $6,186.72. 

The following By-laws were then adopted by the Board: 


BY-LAWS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 


Art. I, The Annual Meetings of the Board shall be held on the 
second Tuesday of May, of each year. 

Art. I. The Treasurer shall keep an account with each Mis- 
sionary and Member of the Society, and also with every Auxiliary 
Society and Association, and produce a list of the members at the 
Annual and Triennial elections. 

Art. III. There shall be an Auditor appointed by the Board, 
by whom all bills shall be examined and approved before they are 
paid, and who shall also examine the Treasurer’s accounts before 
every Annual Meeting of the Board. 

Art. IV. The Secretary of the Society shall be the Secretary of 
the Board of Directors, and of the Executive Committee. In the 
event, however, of a vacancy in the office of Secretary of the — 
Society, the Board of Directors shall elect a Secretary or Secretaries 
for itself, who shall also be the Secretary or Secretaries of the 
Executive Committees, provided; that, inthe interim between the 
meetings of the Board, the Executive Committee shall elect its 
own Secretary or Bapretan 1es. 

Art. V. The President of the Society, or one of the other 
Bishops, according to seniority, shall preside at the meetings of the 


a 


RT. REY. -BISUOP BROWNELL. 


aig 


appoint all Committees, unless otherwise provided for, and sign all 
orders for money directed to be paid -by the Board. 


Arr. VI. There shall be appointed annually, by the Board of 


- Directors, a Committee of eight persons, who, together with the 


‘President of the Society, the Secretary or Secretaries, Treasurer, 
and Auditor, shall constitute an Executive Committee; at the 
meetings of which any other Bishop of the Church resident in this 


city, or occasionally present, shall have the right to attend and 


: _ take part in its proceedings; and such Bishop or Bishops shall be 
_ regularly notified by the Secretary or Secretaries of the Executive 


- Committee, with the other members of the Committee, of the time 


_ and place of the meeting. 


The Executive Committee shall recommend to the Board proper 
places and stations for their attention, appoint suitable persons to 
be employed as Missionaries, attend to the Missionaries when em- 
ployed, diffuse intelligence for the purpose of exciting «an interest 
in behalf of the Society, and, in general, execute the Resolutions 
of the Board in relation to Missions and Missionary stations. 

Five Members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for 
transacting business; they shall keep regular minutes of the 
proceedings, and lay the same before the Board at every Meeting, 
and shall supply all vacancies which may occur in their own body 

during the recesses of the Board. 

Art. VII. In relation to Missionaries: 1. They shall be gov- 
erned by the Canons and Rubrics, and conform to the Liturgy of 
the Church in the performance of all the offices of their ministry. 2. 
They shall keep a regular correspondence with the Executive Com- 
mittee, through the Secretary or Secretaries, and furnish a detailed 
Report of their labors quarterly. 3. All Missionaries in the service of 
the Society, who shall be sent out of the Diocesan jurisdiction of any 
particular Bishop, shall be considered as under the Diocesan authority 
of the President of the Society. 4. If there should be charges 
against any Missionary of this Society requiring ecclesiastical 
investigation, the President may commit the process to any 
Bishop more conveniently resident for inquiry ; and the sentence of 
such Bishop, after trial conducted agreeably to the forms provided 
in his Diocese, and transmitted to the President of this Society, 
shall be final. 

Art. VIII. It shall be the duty of the Executive Committee, 


112 _ Proceedings and Report. 


at every Annual Meeting of the Board, to report a full and accurate 
view of their proceedings, together eich the Treasurer’s Account, 
and such other documents as will enable the Board to perceive the 
exact situation of the affairs of the Society. 


After the adoption of these By-laws, the office of Secretary 


of the Society being vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Mr. 
Rutledge, the Rev. F. L. Hawks and the Rev. B. B. Smith were 
appointed Secretaries of the Board of Directors and of the 


Executive Committee, pursuant to the fourth Article of the Bye : 


laws. 
A Resolution for the publication of a Monthly Missionary 
Paper was referred, with power, to the Executive Committee. 
The Board then proceeded to the appointment of the Execu- 
tive Committee, when the following gentlemen were unanimously 
elected for the year commencing May, 1830: 


The Rev. Dr. Kemper, P. H. Nicklin, Esq., 
The Rev. Dr. Montgomery, Charles Wheeler, Esq., 
The Rev. Mr. Boyd, Dr. C. Morris, 

The Rev. Mr. Van Pelt, Lewis R. Ashurst, Esq. 


Rev. B. B. Smith, ) Secretaries, and ex officio members of the 
Rey. F. L. Hawks, Executive Committee. 


Charles N. Bancker, Auditor, and ex officio member of the 
Executive Committee. 

Jacob Lex, Zreasurer, and ex officio member of the Executive. 
Committee. 


: a Read Bay Trustees of the Permanent Fund. 


We have already mentioned the Report made by the Execu- 
tive Committee to this meeting of the Board. We now turn to 
that Report, and record some of the facts which it contains. 

Its opening paragraphs are as follows: 


“In presenting to the Board their first Report, under the pro- 
visions of the amended Constitution, it is natural for the Executive 
Committee, in the first instance, to advert to certain internal arrange- 
ments and general plans of procedure to which the new and more 
animating prospects of this institution have given rise. Its labors 


1830. Report of the Executive Committee. ee 


have been greatly facilitated by the previous arrangement of all 
the important business of the Society by the proper Standing Com- 
mittees, whose meetings are regularly held every week, and whose 
records, in the course of only a few months, evince the great dili- 
gence with which the duties of these sub-committees have been 
prosecuted. ‘These sub-committees are four in number, viz., the 
Finance Committee, Committee of Domestic Missions, Committee 
of Foreign Missions, and the Library Committee. 

“Most of the measures calculated to interest the public in the 
objects of this Society, and having direct reference to increasing 
and sustaining its receipts, have originated with the Finance Com- 
MITTEE, and to this Committee it is the standing order to refer 
all matters within its appropriate sphere which cannot at once be 
disposed of in the Executive Committee. In like manner, very 
important suggestions have emanated from the Domusric and For- 
EIGN COMMITTEES, in their respective departments; and to their 
efficiency is it owing that the great increase of business upon the 
hands of your Committee has been dispatched with more than 
usual promptitude and ease. The Lisrary Commirres, also, though 
having occasion for less frequent meetings, has already exhibited 
much zeal in proposing plans which will soon result, it is hoped, in 
the possession of several works of great importance to your Com- 
mittee. 

“Your Committee, deeply affected by the very unprofitable 
results of the employment of a General Agent, fully concurred in 
the decision of the Board, adopted upon the evidence of facts which 
were commended by this Committee to their superior wisdom, and 
were prepared, therefore, immediately after their organization, in 
August last, to do all in their power to render effective the more 
judicious and promising measure of organizing Associations, as far 
as might be, in every parish throughout the country, contemplating 
the establishment of an intimate bond of union between several in 
the same vicinity by means of Auxiliaries. 

“ Details of this plan were promptly submitted to the friends of 
that cause which we have in hand by a Circular,* addressed by 


* The Circular above referred to is before us. That which called it forth 
was the action of the Executive Committee, expressed in the following extract 
from their Minutes: 


8 


114 Report of the Heecutive Committee. 1880. 


your Secretary to all the Clergy and to many tried friends among — 


the lay members of the Church. Your Committee beg leave to offer 
their hearty congratulations, and to join with you in devout thanks- 
givings to the Father of Mercies for the marked and almost universal 


“ Resolution of the Executive Committee of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary 
Society of the Protestant Episecpal Church, held October 9, 1829. 


“ Resolued, That the Secretary be directed to take immediate measures for 
the formation of Auxiliary Societies and Associations in the several Dioceses 
of our Union; provided that no agencies, voluntary or otherwise, shall be 
employed in any Diocese by this Society, in reference to the fori.ation of such 
Auxiliaries and Associations, without the consent of the Ecclesiastical authority 
of the same.” 


In order that the methods pursued by our fathers may be more fully known, 
we here record the following forms of the Constitutions of the Auxiliaries and 
Associations, as set forth in the Circular: 


“The following plans of Constitutions for Auxiliary Societies and Associ- 
ations in aid of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society were drawn up 


by a Committee, and are herewith submitted to the members of the Church as. 


containing the general features which the Executive Committee desire to see 
in all such institutions. Wherever particular circumstances may render it 
expedient, such modifications may be made as the necessity of the case requires ; 
but the Committee request a rigid adherence to these two points: 1st, That no 
specific sum shall be requisite to membership, but that all who subscribe shall 
be members; and 2d, That subscription shall be renewed annually, either at 
the time of the Annual Meeting, or as soon after as possible.” 


“CONSTITUTION OF AN AUXILIARY SOCIETY, 


“1, This Society shall be composed of the members of the several Associations 
in . . ,andshallbecalledthe . . . Auxiliary Society of the Domestic 
and eA Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 

“2. The object of this Society shall be to raise funds in aid of the Missionary 
operations of said Society. 

“3. Its officers shall be a President, a Secretary, and Treasurer. Wherever 
practicable, the Bishop of the Diocese shall be President of the Auxiliary or 
Auxiliaries within his Diocese.* 

“4, These officers, together with the Presidents and.Secretaries of the Asso- 
ciations connected with the Auxiliary, shall constitute an Bxecutive Committee, 
any four of whom, in connection with the Secretary of the AAT shake 
pees a quorum. 

. The duties of Treasurer and Secretary shall be prescribed by the Com- 
eee thus constituted. 


* These Auxiliaries are-to be formed in cities and large towns, and whenever convenient 
to the Bishop’s residence, can be placed under his presidency, 


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1830. | Report of the Hxecutive Committee. 115 


approbation with which these measures have been met; a voice of 
approval so spontaneous and ardent that voluntary Agents have 
already traversed the greater part of Massachusetts and Rhode 
Island, and secured to this Society the codperation of almost as 


“6. It shall be the duty of the Executive Committee to adopt the most 
energetic measures in their power to render the Society and the Associations 
connected with it effective and useful in accomplishing the object of their 
institution. - 

“7 There shall be an Annual Meeting of the Society at such time and place 
as the Executive Committee shall appoint, when its necessary business shall. 
be transacted, and appropriate addresses, or a sermon, or both, delivered. 

«8. A copy of this Constitution, with the list of the officers of the Society, 
shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary 
Society, and also a copy of its Reports, ete. 

“9. The Treasurer shall, from time to time, after deducting incidental 
expenses, pay over the funds of this Society to the Treasurer of the: Domestic 
and Foreign Missionary Society.” 


“CONSTITUTION OF AN ASSOCIATION. 


“1. This Association. is formed solely for the purpose of raising funds to 
further the Missionary operations of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary 
Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. 

ower... belonging to -.—. . Church (or Parish), and con- 
tributing to this cause, shall be members of this Association until they shall 
decline, at the annual call of the Collector, to make any further donation. 

“3 The officers of the Association shall be a President,* Secretary, and 
Treasurer. 

“A, These officers shall constitute an Executive Committee, whose duty it 
shall be to appoint a suitable number of Collectors, and otherwise te render 
effective the objects of the Association. 

“5. These Collectors shall make such a division of their duties as to visit 
every individual in the parish or district who may be supposed to favor the 
objects of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society; shall receive the 
names of donors and the amount they sec fit to contribute for either of the 
Missions or departments of Missions contemplated by the Society, and shall 
pay over the amount to the Treasurer, at least ten days previous to the Annual 
Meeting. > : 

“6. The Annual Meeting shall be held on . . . . , when the officers of 
the Association shall be chosen, and other customary business transacted. 

“ The Treasurer shall receive all moneys from the Collectors, and, after 
‘deducting incidental expenses, pay them over to the Treasurer of the Auxiliary 
Society of . . . . ,or to the Treasurer of the Domestte and Foreign Mis- 
sionary Society.” a oi 


* Wherever there is a Rector, it is expected he, will fill this office. 


116 Report of the Hxecutiwe Committee. oat. 


many Associations as there are parishes in those Dioceses; and, 
indeed, without voluntary Agents, other and very vigorous Associ- 
ations have sprung up in various and distant parts of the country, 
apparently vying with each other which first should express in 


The Circular from which we have copied the foregoing forms presents an 
Appeal to the Church, a portion of which is as follows: 


“The sole thing which the Committee now deem necessary is to place 
before the Church the actual state in which the Society is now existing; the 
means deemed most available for the improvement of this condition, and a few 
of the reasons for immediate and general employment of these means. 

« What, then, is the condition in which the Society actually is at the present 
time? Is it such as its age, the manner in which it was formed, the wealth of 
Churchmen, their intelligence, their liberality, their piety, would lead a stranger 
to suppose ? . 

“If this was the case, wherever a destitute station in our widely-extended 
country was found, a messenger of Christ would be fixed by us to proclaim to 
our perishing brethren the truths of salvation. Wherever a spot could be 
reclaimed from the wide-spread wilderness of heathenism, we would find that 
spot, by our labors, blooming and blossoming as the rose. If this was the 
case, wherever a pious Minister of the Gospel could be found with a heart 
ready to say to us, ‘ Here lam; send me as a laborer into the field white for the 
harvest,’ we would send him; and when difficulties arose in the obtaining of 
Missionaries already educated, we would train our pious youth, by useful 
education, for future heralds of the Cross. 

“ But, alas! an empty treasury ; a list of stations in our own land so small 
as to make us blush to name it; not a single movement making among the 
heathen in foreign lands; continual refusals of Missionary services from the 
want of ability to support them, and no provision making for the supply of 
those Ministers who will be needed hereafter, present a state of things so 
different from what might be expected as to make us fear our hearts are not 
engaged in the solemn and all-important objects of this Society There is, in 
fact, a state of things too apparent to be disguised, which indicates that, unless 
something is speedily effected, decay and dissolution must take place in that 
body whose health the Executive Committee are called on to provide for. 

“ Deeply impressed with this truth, the Committee have looked, from time 
to time, most anxiously for some means whereby energetic action could be 
infused into the movements of our Society, the useful results of which would 
be felt throughout our Church, Auxiliaries and Associations have been pro- 
posed; a General Agent who would devote himself to the concerns of the 
institution, and especially to the formation of such allies, has also hitherto been 

proposed, and both propositions have been received with approbation by the 
Society, and the expediency of them tested by experiment, but without any 
favorable results ; and the income arising from the employment of a Permanent 
Agent was found far too small to induce the continuance of stch an officer, 


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1830. Report of the Hxeecutwe Commitice. ; Ty 


energetic action their decided satisfaction in the measures which 
you authorized your Committee to pursue. | 

“From these beginnings they are encouraged to hope that a 
regular income, in some measure proportioned to the exigencies of 
this Society, will hereafter be placed at their disposal. Should 
these plans, upon which similar institutions have long placed their 
chief dependence, fail of their effect among Episcopalians in the 
United States, your Committee will feel that the hopes of this in- 
stitution must be prostrated. 

“The further measures of the Executive Committee relative to 
the finances of the Society have consisted in the offer of defraying 
the travelling expenses of voluntary agents,* . . . . and in 
employing the Rev. J. J. Robertson, your Missionary to the Greeks, 
while in this country, in obtaining funds and organizing Associations 
for the general purposes of the Society, as well as in support of his 
own special Mission.” 


with a salary at all adequate to his labors. Congregational collections, and 
applications in various ways by our Clergy and active Laity, have also been 
resorted to for the supply of our Treasury, but without the success desired. 
Occasionally some rich and enlivening rills were seen pouring into our reservoir 
of charity, but generally they were so precarious and so free from the perennial 
character requisite to preserve a proportion between the inlet and the outlet as 
to disappoint expectation, and render entirely nugatory plans which were formed 
on the prospect of their uniform and steady flow. 

“ After various trials, made upon mature deliberation and with much prayer, 
the Committee can find no scheme better adapted to excite an interest in the 
movements of our Society, and to procure a regular and uniformly productive 
income, than the formation of Associations and Auxiliaries, under the pro- 
visions to be named in the accompanying Constitutions for said institutions. 
Similar plans are now yielding thousands of pounds per annum to the Church 
Missionary Society and other Societies in England, and maintaining in most 
effective operation some of the largest and most useful Societies in our own 
country.” 


The Circular, from which the above extracts are made, is signed by 
“EDWARD RUTLEDGE, 
“Secretary of the Dom. and For. Miss. Soc.,” 
and bears date as above stated, October 9, 1829. 


* Plan of securing the services of Clergymen and zealous Laymen as Volun- 
tary Agents was regarded as promising very satisfactory results. 

Mention was made in the Report of the temporary suspension of the publi- 
cation of Missionary Papers from July, 1829, to March, 1830, and the reasons 
given; and propositions were started and referred to the Board for issuing a 
Monthly Paper. 


Be ke! Report of the Kxecutive. Committee. | 1830, 


Respecting the financial condition of the Society the Iteport 
uses the following language: ’ 


* All other matters connected with the financial concerns of the 
Society will appear sufficiently evident by reference to the Treasurer's 
Report. It is impossible, however, for your Committee to call your 
attention to the favorable results there exhibited, contrasted as 
they are with the depressed and almost ruinous posture of these 


affairs at your late meeting, without giving utterance to their heart- — 


felt admiration of the wisdom and mercy of Him ‘whose are’ the 
treasures of the whole earth” in suggesting the adoption of measures 
which, under His blessing, have already resulted in replenishing the 
treasury with an amount never yet reported at any Annual Meeting 
as being actually in hand, and with an income which has more than 
doubled that of the past year, and is more than five times as much 
as that of the year 1827. | 

“ As far as the experience of this Committee has gone, its confi- 
dence has every month been increased. that Episcopalians need only 
to be informed of the degradation and ignorance, the moral wretch- 
edness and peril—to alleviate which this Society has been called into 
existence, and to have their hearts appealed to by the all-powerful 
motives of Christian truth and charity, and most promptly will 
they take their stand in the foremost rank of those who are giving 
and suffering for the Redeemer’s sake.” 


The Report of the Executive Committee then takes up the 
various Domestic Missions, in which this Report includes Mis- 
sions To THE Inprans; then follows the Report on Forrien 
Misstons, as follows: 


‘¢ FOREIGN. DEPARTMENT. 


“The attention of your Committee has unremittingly been 
directed to the spiritual wants of their suffering fellow-creatures 
upon the several fields of foreign operation which this Board, in 
unison with the sentiments of the Society and of the General Con- 
vention, have recommended to their special regard. But the opera- 
tion of a great variety of causes has unhappily concurred in pre- 
venting hitherto the occupancy of any station on heathen ground. 
It may well, therefore, be regarded as cause of mutual congratula- 
tion and of devout gratitude to God that better prospects are now 


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1880. Leeport of the Kxecutive Committee. 119 


opening to our view. One Foreign Missionary Establishment has 
already been determined upon, and the commission of this Society 
given to their the first Foreign Missionary, the Rey. J. J. Robertson, 
for whose permanent residence on the shores of a once free and 
enlightened country, preparations are in much forwardness ;: and 
for Africa, also, the promise is once more exceedingly encouraging.” 


°C AFRICA. 


“Impressed as your Committee are with the belief that no 
portion of the human race can assert a stronger claim upon the 
sympathies of Christian people in this country than the depraved 
and benighted tribes removed at no great distance from the western 
coast of Africa, and anxious, therefore, to impress first upon that 
shore the traces of their earliest Missionary exertions, they have 
been looking abroad with the deepest solicitude to find laborers for 
that field. But since the death of your Missionary, the Rev. Mr. 
Oson, cut off by the visitation of God on the very eve of his in- 
tended visit of mercy to the land of his fathers, your Committee has 
looked in vain for some person of similar views to supply his loss. 

“It appears to them truly providential, however, that, at the 
very moment your treasury is so far replenished as to inspire your 
Committee with confidence in enlarging the sphere of their opera- 
tions, they have been officially informed by our valued coadjutor, 
the Arrican Mission ScHoo.,* of the fitness and probable readiness 
of three very promising colored persons from the School, to proceed to 
Liberia, in the fall, under your benevolent auspices, for the purpose 


* We find in the “ Quarterly Missionary,’ September, 1828, the following: 
“MIssIon ScHOOL.—At a meeting of a number of clerical and lay members of 
the Protestant Episcopal Church, at Hartford, Conn., on the 7th of August last, 
at which Bishop Brownell presided, a Society was formed for the support of an 
African Mission School at that place. 

“Of this Society, Bp. Brownell is President, and the other Bishops official 
Patrons. Three Vice-Presidents and twenty-four Directors were elected. 
S. H. Huntington, Esq., was elected Secretary ; Cyprian Nichols, Esq., 7’reas- 
urer ; Rev. N.S.Wheaton was appointed Rector ; and Mr. H. Spencer, Teacher.” 

“One of the by-laws of this institution was as follows: ‘ Whenever the 
Committee shall judge any of the pupils qualified for usefulness in Africa, as 
a Missionary, Catechist, or Schoolmaster, they shall give notice thereof to the 
Executive Committee of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States,’ ” 


120 Report of the Hxecutive Committee. 1830. 


of commencing a Missionary establishment, either within the limits 
of the colony itself, or somewhere in its immediate vicinity. 

“The best. instructed of these three persons is Epwarp JONES, a 
graduate of Amherst College, and a scholar of no mean attain- 
ments in all those studies upon which our Canons require 
that he should be examined, before admission to holy orders, 
in August next. He has also made some progress in the Hebrew 
language and the Cognate dialects, particularly the Arabic, for the 
express purpose of being the better prepared to labor among those 
tribes of Pagan or semi-Mahometan Africans somewhat interior 
from the Colony, who speak a dialect approaching the Arabic, and 
some of whom are taught the language in its written and classical 
purity. 

“ Aucustus V. Cassar, Who has also been at the African Mission 
School nearly a year, and is represented as possessing excellent 
qualifications for usefulness among the colonists at Liberia, will be 
prepared to receive holy orders in the autumn, and holds himself 
in readiness to become your Missionary. 

“ A third from the same interesting institution, WiLtt1am JOHN- 
son, will, about the same time, be prepared to engage in your 
service as Schoolmaster, or Catechist.* 

“Had the wisdom and forecast of your Committee been put to 
their utmost stretch in preparing beforehand for the occupancy of 
an extensive and promising Missionary establishment in Africa, 
they could by no means have anticipated a happier adjustment of 
means and instruments for commencing the work. We have in 
hand funds sufficient to inspire confidence in determining at once to 
embark in the enterprise. We are assured of an extent of interest 


q 


* «On the 6th of August, 1830, Mr. Jones and Mr. Cesar were ordained by 
Bishop Brownell, in Christ Church, Hartford, Conn. The sermon on the occa- 
sion was preached by the Rev. Dr. Montgomery, one of the clerical members 
of the Executive Committee. The services were spoken of in terms of the 
liveliest interest by those who were present on the occasion.” 

A passage for these Missionaries and for Mr. Johnson, Catechist, was gen- 
erously offered to the Society by the American Colonization Society, in their 
vessel, to sail on the 1st of October of the same year. 

It was expected also that an intelligent colored female would go out with 
this Mission, for the purpose of establishing Infant Schools in the Colony. She 
had for some time been employed in acquiring this important system of educa- 
tion in an Infant School in Hartford. 


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1880. | Report of the Hxecutive Committee. 121 


. 


and zeal in behalf of this special Mission which precludes the possi- 
bility of questioning whether it will be promptly sustained. And 
we have before us the application of three descendants of the 
African race, remarkably well qualified, as far as human prudence 
can discern, to sustain the various departments of our infant 


establishment. 
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“These animating facts are laid before you under a strong  per- 
suasion that the friends of this Mission, bitterly tried and disappointed 
as they have heretofore been, need something to reanimate their 
zeal; and with the hope that wise and enlarged efforts will be put 
forth immediately to render the fund for the outfit and support of 
this Mission fully adequate to meet all the expenses which this 
establishment, upon the most effective scale, will be likely to incur. 


Your friends must maturely consider at how great cost THREE 


MissIoNARizEs must be sent abroad to the same infant station at one 
time; and how deep will be the sense of responsibility on the part 
of your Committee in endeavoring to impart strength and stability 
to this distant and expensive station.” 


How sad to these dear brethren must have been the utter dis- 
sipation of these fond hopes, at a date only a few months later. 


* GREECE. 


“Your Committee have long been encouraged in their efforts for 
this afflicted country by the assurance, not only of your appro- 
bation, but of that of the Church at large, as expressed by resolu- 
tions of the General Convention at their last meeting. 

“ By the Report of your Committee, on that occasion, you were 
informed of the arrival of your Missionary Agent, the Rev. J. J. 
Robertson, in Greece. After prosecuting the investigations with 
which he was charged with exemplary diligence, he returned to 
this country early in December last. After spending some time 
with his family in Vermont, in the preparation of his journals and 
reports, he arrived in this city, for the purpose of holding consul- 
tations with your Committee, about the middle of February. 


Note.—The journals, reports, and letters, transmitted by Mr. Robertson to 
the Committee, are of great length, and very full of interesting details. We 
are obliged to confine ourselves to a few extracts, which bear more directly 


122 } Report of the Executive Committee. | 1890, 


“The substance of his interesting and able Report, upon due 
consideration of which your Committee felt constrained to proceed 
immediately to the final establishment of the Mission, as far as the 
Rey. Mr. Robertson and family are concerned, has already been 
given to the Church, in the last Missionary Paper. 


upon the character of the work which was proposed in the establishment of a 
Mission. 

The Quarterly Paper for July, 1829, contains a letter from Mr. Robertson, 
dated Corfu, March 17, 1829, a portion of which we give, as follows : 


“The uncertain and disordered state of the country has indeed rendered it 
very difficult to ascertain the best means of introducing light, and the most 
suitable situations to be first occupied. It has, moreover, in some degree, 
given an air of contradiction to Missionary reports. The changing face of 
affairs has one day inspired hopes, which the next have been destroyed; 
and thus intelligence in regard to the openings and encouragements for Mis- 
sionary operations have, to some extent, worn the varying hue of political 
tidings. This is not to be wondered at, though it calls upon us to exercise 
faith and patience while we are seeking to extend pure and undefiled religion, 
and to win souls to Christ. They who have long been connected with a Mis- 
sionary establishment, or who have been personally on Missionary ground, 
know well the multitude of difficulties and discouragements which attend 
upon attempts to diffuse the light of Divine truth; and the caution and pru- 
dence which are requisite to give success to Christian effort, especially where 
regularly constituted churches already exist. It is almost impossible that a 
correct sense of these things should be fastened upon the public mind. There 
is a constant desire to hear accounts of ardent and active effort, and to receive 
exciting statements of great success, even where the publication of the one 
would be in the. highest degree imprudent, and the attainment of the other 


would demand years of unremitted and self-denying, but retired and cautious 


exertion. 

“My resolution to devote myself to the cause of Greece has not been abated 
since I have been here (though I have had occasionally hours of despondency), 
but I see plainly that in more than one respect my views of usefulness were 
incorrect, and my expectations of boldly and openly preaching the truth to 
sanguine.” 


In the same paper from which the above extract is taken, the Executive 
Commitee say : 


“Mr. Robertson has also forwarded to the Committee, among other impor- 
tant papers, the following extracts from letters from Dr. Korck, a Missionary 
of the English Church Missionary Society in Greece. [A portion of these is 
here given. | 


“Unite with me in thanksgiving, dear brother, for the grace of our blessed 
Lord, who has granted me opportunity to be useful in Greece earlier than I 


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me 


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“ And they trust that when the avidity of the Greeks to receive 
the Bible and other religious books is considered; when their 
eagerness for instruction in every good thing, and the preference 
which is decidedly given by them to the kind offices of Americans, 
are duly weighed ; and when to these considerations are added the 


could have expected. A school of three hundred pupils, of which I have the 
superintendence, affords the most gratifying facilities to conduct people from 
their old superstitions to the knowledge of the one thing needful. J had every 
obstacle to encounter, and I often thought it best wholly to abandon the 
work. Now the Lord opens to me a door of continually increasing expectation. 
At first sight, [may seem to be out of my proper sphere as a Missionary, but, 
the more I get acquainted with the business of schools, the more I discover 
in it delightful means of conveying to our unfortunate Greek brethren the 
light of Divine truth. They have themselves a desire for education, and 
they wish our assistance. Through the instrumentality of the system of 
mutual instruction, we are enabled to keep at a distance all controversy 
on religious subjects, and to) introduce the simple doctrines of Scripture, 
and the sermons which the Apostles first delivered in Greece. If we can but 
preach Christ and Him crucified, let us be content. Of what avail is all 
other wisdom? A Missionary who, with compassionate charity, desires to offer 
gifts to this nation, will be welcomed with outstretched hands. The supporters 
of superstition did, indeed, form a conspiracy against us some time since, 
striving to cut us off from this means of doing good. It was rumored abroad 
that I was a luxurious seducer of the youth intrusted to me-—an atheist. Yea, 
they have aimed at a public investigation, by aid of the priests, when the Lord 
interfered, and called away their chief leader. 

««Surely, my dear brother, the Lord is with me, else I could not bear so 
much as lam called to do in my present seclusion from all Christian inter- 
course. The Lord has assisted me, and His assistance gives me confidence for 
the time to come. All things considered, I feel grateful to God for my destiny. 
I have opportunity of communicating light both to youth and to adults. I love 
the children with a parent’s interest, they meet all my expectations. The Goy- 
ernment seems, moreover, to regard my enterprise favorably. Thank the Lord 
with me, and praise His holy name! . . . . . The Lord seems to look in 
special mercy upon Greece. Scriptures of all descriptions are earnestly sought 
for, and what appears most marvellous, we are not merely suffered to act, but 
the Government begins to solicit our assistance. The magistrates of different 
islands send their young men to be prepared for schoolmasters. The Governor 
of the Northern Cyclades has put all the schools of his district under my 
superintendence. This, with the additional consideration that he is aware 
that I, a foreign clergyman,am expounding publicly, twice a week, the Holy 
Scriptures, is an event, the reality of which I am scarcely able to believe 
myself. But I feel that the moment is precious. The enemy cannot suffer this 
door to remain long without an assault.’ ” 


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readiness of the Rey. Mr. Robertson to enter upon this field of 
benevolent, exertion, and the zeal of very many to sustain him in his 
undertaking; and more especially the countenance given to this 
Mission by its recognition in the last General Convention ; it is 
hoped that the decision of your Committee will meet with your 
entire approbation, 


In the Missionary Paper, September, 1830, which also contains portions of 
Mr. Robertson’s Report, we find the following given by him in continuation of 
his description of the character of the Greeks: 


“JT come now to the most important part in regard to the Greek character. 
I mean in relation to religion. And my first remark is that the Greeks are 
nationally disposed to maintain Christianity, because with them it is synony- 
mous with direct opposition to Mahometanism, the faith of their late oppres- 
sors.. Thus, as they associate with Mahometanism all that they loathe and hate, 
they view Christianity as united with all that they admire and hope to attain. 
The one term with them expresses barbarism; the other, civilization. This 
view of religion has a happy tendency to prevent the introduction of infidelity 
in many minds, and to restrain its bold avowal and defence in those who have 
begun to be tainted. To deny the truth of Christianity would be to be less than 
a Greek, less than a patriot,—so that some, merely from motives of policy, re- 
frain not only from seducing others, but from avowing their own sentiments. 

“That part of the Greek community which is of infidel sentiments consists 
chiefly of those who have been educated at foreign universities. Two or three 
years’ residence at Paris, Géttingen, or Vienna, is very apt, at least, to unsettle 
their confidence in the Christian faith. 

“The Greeks who are sincere are more or less affected with superstition— 
the mass of the people to a very great degree. They have strong dependence 
upon the efficacy of relics, and full faith in a multitude of false miracles. 
Their saints are as numerous as those of the Romish Church ; are honored 
with especial ceremonies, processions, and consecrated days, and are invoked on 
all occasions. The Panagia, or Virgin Mary, far transcends all others, and 
receives the utmost veneration. They profess to abhor images, and yet it would 
be difficult to find a house, where poverty does not forbid it, without a sacred 
picture or two, and a lamp kept constantly burning before them. ‘This is also 
the case in the cabins of their vessels. Incense is burned before the picture at 
stated times, and then the censer is brought and swung for a few moments 
near the face of each individual present. In passing a church or monastery, 
they never fail to cross themselves, taking care to do it in the orthodox man- 
ner, and not in the heretical mode, as they deem it, of the Roman Catholics. 
Indeed, in crossings, and bowings, and kissing the holy pictures or the shrines 
of the saints, the religious services of many seem almost wholly to consist. 
Upon learning that I was a priest,a monk once led me forthwith into the 
church, expecting to ascertain my orthodoxy by observing in what mode I 
should cross myself. Disappointed at my not making the sign, he made known 


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1880. Leeport of the Hxecutive Committee. 125 


“There are some additions to this, your first Foreign Missionary 
establishment, which have seemed to your Committee so very im- 
portant, that they have been almost prepared to pronounce them 
indispensable ; which, for want of sufficient funds actually on hand, 
and from ignorance of the extent to which the organization of 


his object. JI answered that American Christians deemed it sufficient to strive 
to ‘crucify the flesh with its affections and lusts, without using the external 
symbol. | 

“With the utmost inconsistency, though they wholly reject the idea of pur- 
gatory, they use prayers for the dead. Other superstitious ceremonies are also 
used in regard to the deceased. In several places I observed little walled 
enclosures, containing a quantity of human bones. I was informed that, the 
third year after burial, the bodies were taken up, the flesh by some means 
destroyed, the skulls kept for one year in the church, where certain rites were 
practised in regard to them, and that, finally, they were deposited in the same 
_ general receptacle where the other bones had been previously placed. 

“ Great reliance is placed by the Greeks upon their fasting, and considerably 
‘more than half the year is occupied by seasons set apart for this purpose. 
They are very precise in their distinctions between different kinds of food; and 
the individual who would feel polluted by swallowing a mouthful of milk » 
would not hesitate to drink freely of wine on the same day. Many of the 
more enlightened profess, when in company with Franks, little regard for these 
regulations, though, under peculiar circumstances, they are as rigid and regular 
as others. At the house of one of the wealthiest men in Greece, and one who 
has held a high station under Government, I dined once wholly on the articles 
allowed on fast day. My kind host slightly apologized afterward. He did not, 
he said, consider these things of any importance, but he liked to have his 
family brought up in regular habits. 

“The Greeks firmly believe in the necessary conveyance of Divine grace 
in the Sacraments to the recipients. Not only Baptism, but the Lord’s Supper, 
is administered to infants. They acknowledge, also, the real, corporeal pres- 
ence of the Redeemer in the bread and wine, and consequently adore the 
elements. 

“ Notwithstanding that a small portion of their countrymen have adopted 
the Latin rite, the Greeks generally are decidedly and strongly hostile to the 
Church of Rome. They often express themselves with warmth in regard to it, 
and are pleased when anything is pointed out in which they differ from that 
Church. 

“They are generally also much opposed to the Jews. It was with some 
difficulty that a very worthy and intelligent young man could be persuaded 
that it was not meritorious to persecute them, since they had crucified our 
Saviour. On another occasion I had quite an argument with the Governor of 
an important station, on their behalf, who at length seemed rather ashamed of 
his illiberal views. 3 

“Yet, though the Greeks seem bigoted in some respects, I have generally 


126 | Report of the Executive Committee. 1830; 


Associations may hereafter furnish resources for this Mission, your 
Committee have ventured to resolve upon, only on condition that 
‘it shall be manifest that funds are forthcoming for their support.’” 

“In adherence to this principle, it was simply resolved by the 
Committee, that it was highly expedient and desirable that Mr. 


found them very ready to discuss religious subjects, candid in argument, and 
patient, under a close application of truth to their hearts and consciences. 
With clergy and laity, with men of station and peasants, in houses and mon- 
asteries, I have freely conversed on subjects of the highest importance in the 
Christian life and faith, and upon points upon which we differed, without 
exciting unpleasant feeling, and sometimes convincing my opponents that they 
were on unscriptural ground. 

“Indeed, the readiness to defer to Scripture authority is a striking charac- 
teristic of the Greeks, and strongly contrasts them with the members of the 
Romish Church. There is a great famine of the Divine Word in the coun- 
try, and there is a corresponding hungering to obtain it. And when it is 
obtained it appears to be read. Priests and people are alike anxious for 
it, and the former seem to have no disposition to withhold it from the latter.. 
The great difficulty is that the Greeks do not distinguish very accurately 
between the writers of the Bible and the fathers of the Church. They have 
been so long accustomed to hear them alike denominated saints; to listen to 
quotations from the one and the other, mingled together as of equal authority, 
and to see their pictures equally suspended in the churches, that they often 
seem to consider them as subjects of the same inspiration. The Old Testament 
is very little known, even among the Clergy. More than one of the Bishops 
urged me to endeavor to procure copies for themselves. From the earnest desire 
to obtain the lively oracles of truth so generally exhibited, great encourage- 
ment exists to hope that darkness and superstition will gradually give way 
before the beams of pure and scriptural light. 

“The indescribable personal sufferings to which most of the Greeks have 
been subjected, and the remarkable vicissitudes which they have experienced ; 
the bereavements in their families, and other circumstances, have led many 
individuals to much serious reflection upon the vanity of the world and the 
uncertainty of terrestrial enjoyments. I have often noticed a tendency to make 
frequent reference to the hand of Providence. In some cases there is an evident 
anxiety to escape from the wrath to come, and to work out their salvation. 
May we not trust that a gracious God is thus preparing the way in the hearts of 
many of these poor sufferers for the transforming influence of His Word, and 
that they will yet taste of the rich consolations which flow from an experi- 
mental acquaintance with the truths of His Holy Gospel? 

“Let not American Christians, themselves so abundantly supplied with both 
temporal and. spiritual blessings, give cause of suspicion that their own faith 
is dead, by saying to their destitute brothers and sisters of Greece, ‘ Depart in 
peace; be ye filled; notwithstanding that they give them not those things 
which are needful.’ ” 


1830. Report of the Executive Committee. 127 


John H. Hill should be appointed Missionary to the Greeks; until 
being fully satisfied that the requisite funds would be supplied, in 
order to relieve Mr. Hill from much embarrassment, as it regarded 
the arrangement of his private affairs, the Committee, on the 28th 
of April, assured him that it was their intention to appoint him 
Missionary to the Greeks, so soon as they shall be informed that he 
has been admitted to holy orders. | 

“Many considerations have convinced the Committee of the 
importance of placing in the hands of your Missionaries the all- 
important advantage of a vigorous press. Nothing, however, need 
here be added to the cogent arguments embodied in the Rey. Mr. 
Robertson’s Report upon this subject. In view of them, with difii- 
culty has your Committee been restrained from resolving, wncon- 
ditionally, and with humble reliance upon the good Providence 
of God for the supply of requisite funds, that a small printing 
establishment shall be connected with this Mission. They have 
ventured, however, to proceed no further than, in the strongest 
terms, to express their sense of the incalculable importance of this 
measure to the extensive and lasting efficiency of your Greek Mis- 
sion, and to appeal, in the strongest language, to the friends of educa- 
tion, of human improvement, and of enlightened political freedom 
throughout the country; and to the friends of truth and pure relig- 
ion within the Church, to come forward, and out of the abundance 
with which the Lord hath blessed them, to give enough to purchase 
and support a press. 

Should this Mission, by the pious liberality of Episcopalians, go 
into full operation upon the scale which appears to your Committee 
most desirable, it can scarcely be doubted that, under the blessing 
of Him who maketh every good work abundantly to prosper, it 
will give an impulse to the awakening energies of the strong intel- 
lects and warm hearts of a gifted and ardent people; that it will 
impart a sound and scriptural character to the religious views and 
pious feelings of a class of the Christian priesthood, whose influence 
and example may hereafter bless their countrymen in a measure even 
surpassing that in which they have heretofore shed a moral blight 
around them; that it will be made in the end abundantly con- 
ducive to the elevation of a very interesting portion of the Christian 
Church from great ignorance and degradation, and of placing it in 
an attitude as remarkably favorable as is its geographical position 
for conyeying the pure Gospel to the descendants of Mahometan 


128 Report of the Hxecutive Committee. 1850. 


oppressors towards the East; and for reflecting light westward 
over the darkness which has so long brooded over some of the 
fairest portions of Southern Europe.” 


We have thought it well to give, at the beginning of the 
Greek Mission, the whole of the Executive Committee’s Report 
on the subject. 

The Report closes with expressions of great encouragement 
in the improved condition of the Society’s affairs, and bright 
hopes and prospects for the future; its last words benmg— 


“Let, then, the clergy make known to their people what is doing 
for Missions, and what they, as Christians and Churchmen, are bound 
to do, and the benevolent objects of this Society will soon be in 
a train of speedy accomplishment.” 


Language as appropriate in 1871 as in 1830. 


TREASURER’S REPORT, 


MAY 11, 1830. 


Whole amount received for the year, since May 11, 1829 (givenin ~ 
the Executive Committee’s Report)... ....: 4pu.. «ete $10,827 82 


The Treasurer’s Account for the part of the year between the 
Annual Meeting in May, and the Triennial Meeting in August, 
1829, not found ; so that, although we have the ability to ascer- 
tain what amount, in all, was received between those days, we 
do not know for what precise account or accounts it was given. 


From August, 1829, to. May, 11, 1830, the receipts for the several 
accounts were as follows: : 
General Mission Actount..’........0)7205...0 53 ol) $3,939 90 


Domestic Mission Account... 2....6.5..5..01 7), 2 re 724 20 
Foreign Mission Account. .....2.0...3. 20 9.24 0.40 Se 815 06 
Greek Mission ‘Account.:..5.: ;i<ss5 eae spe woos kine ee 3,234 75 
GreensBay «cca 5 p55 sis ten sa Fs in 00 98 eo aig ee a 71 00 
Florida Mission Account. 2.1... /.....5teeea ct 1,461 91 
Liberia Mission Account. 0.0. . ci. scene © anes ae 7 00 

9,753 82 


So that the amount recieved between May 11 and Aug. 12,1829, was 1,073 50 


Receipts for the year, as above'given’ 4s. 2.0. o.+.5 1008 bo $10,827 82 


- 1880. Report of the Executive Committee. 129 
The Balances of Account, May 11,1830, stood as follows : 
BALANCES. . Dy. ups 

So eS 731 57 
BROMO fy Seen s wins wees Baldare Ahad eee gee 387 01 
ee he ka ss vay vend cae de’s $1,045 55 
(SSS SOS SE OUT Oe rr Sata 316 64 
DEM asa eke para peck che ya sce ves bait fe ea 
SD os ee e's ate cee ve ss ba es’ 7 00 
Drm AATON Gir ko os ac vs ce bec os cava ee 2,248 10 
SE ESE ee eae ee 2,718 60 
Cash in hands of the Treasurer.................. 6,186 72 


-ean at present be prepared. 
been received; others, perhaps, have fallen into decay. 


$7,305 50 $7,805 50 


LIST OF ASSOCIATIONS. 


“The following list of Associations is as full and accurate as 


From some, no returns of officers have 
It seemed 


desirable, however, that some account of Associations should be 
given; and the more imperfect it appears, the more deeply will the 
friends of the institution feel impressed with the importance of 
making an early return of the names of the Associations, together 
with the names of the three principal officers, and the probable 
amount of annual contributions : 


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ASSOCIATIONS. 


. Association, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 

. Association, Trinity Church, Easton, Pennsylvania. 
. Ladies’ Association, St. John’s Church, Northern Liberties, Philadelphia. 
. Ladies’ Association, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. 


Ladies’ Association, Beaufort, South Carolina. 


. Ladies’ Association, Christ Church, Savannah, Georgia. 

. Ladies’ Association, St. Luke’s Church, Germantown, Pennsylvania. 
. Ladies’ Association, Christ Church, Philadelphia. 

. Association, Trinity Church, Southwark. 

. Association, Hartford, Connecticut. 

. Association, Middletown, Connecticut. 

. Ladies’ Association, St. Matthew’s Church, Bedford, New York. 

. Association, St. John’s Church, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 

. Ladies’ Association, St. John’s Church, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 
. Ladies’ Association, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

. Ladies’ Association, St. Paul’s Church, Augusta, Georgia. 

. Association, St. Paul’s Church, Boston. 

. Association, Immanuel Church, New Castle. 


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. Association, St. Andrew’s Church, Mount Holly, New Jersey. 
. Association, Trinity Church, Newport, Rhode Island. . 
. Association, Trinity Church, New Haven, Connecticut. 

. Association, Chatham, Connecticut. 

. Ladies’ Association, Perth Amboy, New J ersey. 

. Association, Norwich, Connecticut. 

. Ladies’ Association, Manlius, New York. 

. Juvenile Association, Hagerstown, Maryland. 

. Association, Bellows Falls, Vermont. 

. Association, Chestertown, Maryland. : { 

. Juvenile Association, Middlebury, Vermont. | 

. Association, Hopkinton, New Hampshire. 

. Association, Greenfield, Massachusetts. 

. Association, Lowell, Massachusetts. 

. Association, Milford, Connecticut. 

. Association, Richmond, Virginia, 


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Ladies’ Association, St. Andrew’s Church, Philadelphia. 
Association, Dedham, Massachusetts. 


. Association, Bristol, Rhode Island. 

. Association, Washington. 

. Association, St. Paul’s, Philadelphia. 

. Association, Church of the Ascension, New York. 

. Ladies’ Association, Portland, Maine—Mrs. Ten Broek, President ; ‘Mrs. ee B. 


Chamberlain, Treasurer; Miss M. A. White, pe 


. Ladies’ Association, Middlebury, Vermont. ~ | 
. Association, St. George’s, Fredericksburg, Vitoihin= Rev. E. C. McGuire, 


President ; A. Hart, Treasurer; Wm. M. Blackford, Secretary. 


. Association of St. Ann’s Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.—Rey. C. P. Mcllvaine, 


President; Robert Carter, Treasurer; Richard A. Tucker, Secretary. 


. Association of the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary of Virginia 


and Vicinity—Professor EH. R. Lippitt, President; 8. G. Bragg, Treasurer ; 
I. D. Tyler, Secretary. 


. Association, St. John’s Church, Poultney, Vermont, and Christ Church, 


~Hampton, New York—Rey. M. Bingham, President; J. P. pica’ Treas. 
urer; P. F. Kellog, Secretary, 


. Association, Christ Church, Georgetown, District of Columbia—Rev. sone 


T. Brooke, President, John J. Stell, Treasurer ; Arthur Shaaff, Secretary. 


. Association, St. Paul’s Church, Lynchburg, Virginia—J. G. Smith, Pres- 


ident: Mrs. R. I. Owens, Vice-President ; Lucy.G. Ward, Secretary. 


. Association, St. Stephen’s Church, Philadelphia—Rey. Dr. Montgomery, 


President; Miss M. Hazlehurst, Beer eny 3 Mrs. T, G. Wharton, Treas- 
urer, 

Ladies’ Association, Grace Church, Philadelphia—Mrs. Kreeger, President ; 
Miss Myers, Secretary ; Miss Douglass, Treasurer. 

The Association of St. James’s Church, for Promoting Religion, Philadel- 
phia—Bishop White, President; J. C, Lowber, Esq., Secretary; John 
Markland, Treasurer. . 


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1881. Annual Meeting, 1831. 131 


ANNUAL MEETING, 1831. 


A Stated Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Domestic 
and Foreign Missionary Society was held at the Society’s room, 
in the city of Philadelphia, on Tuesday, May 10, 1831, at ten 
o’clock, A.M. 

Present, Bishop White (in the chair), Bishop B. T. Onder- 
donk; the Rev. Messrs. Abercrombie, Montgomery, Milnor, 
Wyatt, Kemper, Ives, Richmond, Henshaw, Anthon, Bedell, 
Allen, Presstman, Tyng, Pardee, Boyd, DeLancey, Rodney, 
Mead, Van Pelt, and Messrs. Newton, Nicklin, Lex, Ashhurst, 
and Dr. Morris. : 

The Executive Committee presented their Annual Report, 
- which was read. 

Discussion having arisen respecting portions of the Report, it 
was referred back to the Executive Committee, at their request. 
It was subsequently accepted, and order taken for the publication 
of such parts of it as the Committee might deem advisable. 
The Board adopted the following alterations in the By-laws, 
as recommended by the Executive Committee: 


“In Articte VI.—Instead of the words ‘ eight persons,’ to insert 
‘twelve persons,’ and after the word ‘ body’ in the last sentence of 
the same Article, to insert ‘or in any of the offices of the Society, 
or of the Board, during the recesses of the Board, and the per- 
sons thus appointed shall have the same rights in the Executive 
Committee as if they had been appointed by the Board or the 
Society.’ | | 

“In Articte VII.—To expunge all that follows the word ‘ quar- 
terly,’ at the termination of the second sentence, and to annex the 
following : 

“¢The Executive Committee shall not hereafter appoint as a 
Missionary any Clergyman who is not recommended as a Clergyman 
of respectable standing in this Church, and possessing such qualifi- 
cations as may render him apt and meet for the duties of a Mis- 
sionary, by the Bishop, with the advice and consent of the Standing 
Committee of the Diocese to which he belongs, or the Standing 
Committee if there be no Bishop; or if the Clergyman belong to 
any State or Territory in which the Church is not organized, by at 


ane Proceedings of Annual Meeting. 1881, 


least three respectable members of this Church (at least one of 
whom shall be a Clergyman of respectable standing), certifying 
from personal knowledge of the proposed Missionary.” : 
“The following alteration was also made in ArticLtE L.: ‘The 
Annual Meeting of the Board shall be held on the last Tuesday of 
April.’ : 


A public Missionary Meeting was ordered and subsequently 
held. 

A Committee was, as usual, appointed to examine the Records 
of the Society, which Committee reported that they found the 
books, papers, etc., of the Society kept with much neatness and 
accuracy, and that they observed a visible improvement in the 
regularity and order in which the affairs of the Society, under 
the care of the Secretaries, have been managed.. ~ 

Upon the motion of the Rev. Dr. Milnor, the thanks of the 
Board were ordered to be returned to the rolloeae Societies for 
gifts of Reports.and Periodicals; and, further, that the report of 
the Executive Committee for the last year, and the last two 
‘“‘ Missionary Periodical Papers” be sent to the said Societies, ai as 
follows : 


The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 

The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 
The Church Missionary Society, 

The London Missionary Society, 

The Wesleyan Missionary Society, 

The Baptist Missionary Society, 

The Society of Evangelical Missions of Paris, 


The Board attended Divine Service on Wednesday, at ten 
o'clock, in St. Paul’s Church, on which occasion the sermon was 
preached by the Rev. Mr. Anthon, of New York. 

The following resolutions were offered respecting the Mis- 
sionary Paper: 


“ Resolved, That it is expedient to continue the vublieadn of 
this paper but monthly, in a pamphlet form of sixteen octavo pages, 
at one dollar a year. 

“ Resolved, That a sufficient number of copies be printed and 


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1881. : ) Proceedings and Report. 133 


published to furnish gratuitously to the members of the Associations 
auxiliary to this Society.” 


The first Resolution was adopted; the second Resolution was 
referred, with power, to the Executive Committee. _ 

A resolution was adopted, declaring it to be inexpedient to 
appoint more than one Secretary, and the sum of six hundred 
dollars was appropriated “as a compensation to that office.” 
Proper notice was taken of the death of Bishop Ravenscroft 
and Bishop Hobart, Vice-Presidents of the Society. 

The following Officers and Executive Committee were ap- 
pointed. 


_ The Rev. Drs. Montgomery, Kemper, and Bedell; the Rey. 
Messrs. Boyd and Rodney, Drs. Morris and Wiltbank; Messrs. 
‘Nicklin, Wheeler, Lex, Ashhurst, Andrews, and Biddle. 
Secretary—Rev. P. Van Pelt. 
Treasurer—Jacob Lex. — 
Trustees of the Permanent Fund—John Read and C. N. Bancker, 
Auditor—C. N Bancker. 


The following Resolution was adopted : 


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* Resolved, ‘That this Board regret that the measures reported 
last year for establishing a Mission in Africa have failed, but that 
they are happy to state that the failure is not in any degree attrib- 
utable to the Executive Committee of this Board.” 


We proceed to give such portions of the Executive Commit- 
tee’s Report as it seems desirable here to record: 


FUNDS. 


“Since the last Annual Account there has been such an increase 
of the funds as affords a most gratifying evidence that the cause of 
Missions has not lost its hold upon the minds and affections of the 
members of our Church. The receipts of the Treasurer, as will be 
perceived by reference to his exhibit, exceed very considerably those 
of any previous year.” 


COLLECTIONS IN CONGREGATIONS. 


“« Acknowledgment is made of the promptness with which differ- 


134 Report of the Euecutive Committee. 


ent congregations responded to the Appeal of the Committee made 
toward the close of the preceding year, in relation to the depressed 
state of the finances of the Society.” 


INCREASE OF ASSOCIATIONS. 


“During the past year, new Associations have been formed at 
Newton, Mass.; Carlisle and Wilkesbarre, Penn.; Saybrook and 
Stratford, Conn.; Rochester, N. Y.; Hagerstown and Frederick- 
town, Md.; Wilmington, Del.; Antrim Parish, Va.; Philadelphia, 
New York, and Baltimore.” 


BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF ASSOCIATIONS, 


“Tt is a matter of no little rejoicing to the Committee, that the 
most beneficial effects have been found to result from the establish- 
ment of Associations, not only in relation to.the special interests of 
the Society, but with reference to the cause of religion generally, 
and particularly in parishes where they have been located. 

“In corroboration of this sentiment, we adduce the testimony 
of areverend gentleman in the State of New York. In a letter 
addressed to a member of the Executive Committee, in relation to — 
an Auxiliary which had recently been established in his parish, he 
uses the following language: ‘The issue of this experiment has 
satisfied me more than ever of the main principle which I advocated 
in my introductory Missionary lecture, that a Missionary spirit in 
a congregation and the increase of personal piety are coincident. 
From Christmas to Christmas, I admitted eighty-two new members 
to the Communion, and have about twenty more prepared for the 
next celebration.’ 

“With such evidence before our eyes, are we not justified in the 
assertion, that those clergymen who make no exertion to excite and 
cherish a Missionary spirit in the breasts of their people, are neglect- 
ing a most powerful means of increasing the number of those who 
love the Lord in sincerity and truth? And who can estimate the 
loss which such a Pastor sustains In reference to his own personal 
comfort and happiness, and of what exceedingly great benefits he 
deprives the souls of those committed to his care? For, while it 
stands recorded on the page of Revelation as the command of the 
Lord Jesus Christ, ‘Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel 
to every creature,’ the minister or congregation that neglects obedi- 
ence to this Divine direction cannot, in the nature of things, expect 


1881. Report of the Executive Committee. 135 


to realize that peace of conscience, that joy in the Holy Ghost, and 
that signal manifestation of God's presence and favor, anne are 
promised exclusively to those who observe the whole will of 
Heaven.” 


EXERTIONS OF INDIVIDUALS. 


“The Committee would be doing violence to their feelings were 
they to refrain from noticing the continued and increasing exertions 
of certain individuals who have long been distinguished for the 
important aid rendered by them to the Society. 

“'To the Rev. Alonzo Potter, of Boston, they are much iariaheed 
for an agency voluntarily SES ae the purpose of forming 
associations, making collections, and furthering the great objects of 
the Society in the Eastern States. 

“To a distinguished layman in Portland, Maine, they would 

tender their cordial thanks for the following plan suggested by him 
for augmenting the resources of the Society: ‘Considering the 
wants of the General Missionary Society of our Church, at this 
juncture, | propose a donation to its funds of fifty dollars a year, 
for five years, if ninety-nine other persons will give the like sum; 
so that a capital of $25,000 may be raised for the general objects of 
the Society.’ 

“To the Rey. Dr. Milnor, of New York, the Committee are greatly 
indebted for his kind attention to the interests of the Society while 
in London. 

“To the Rt. Rev. Bishop Meade, of Virginia, the Committee 
would make their grateful acknowledgment for his offer to present 
the claims of the Society, during his proposed visit to the States of 
Tennessee and Kentucky. 

“To the Rey. Mr. Ducachet, of “Norfolk; Dr. E. Hale and Mr. 
Benjamin Howard, of Boston; and the Rev. Mr. Van Ingen, the 
Committee are also under obligations for services severally .ren- 
dered by them to the Society. 


The Report of the Executive Committee makes mention of 
a donation of books, tracts, etc., from several Missionary Socie- 
ties in Europe and the United States. Among the gifts from the 
London Missionary Society was a large engraving, representing 
the cession of the District of Matavai, in the Island of Otaheite. 
This picture still hangs in the Mission coms. 


136 Report of the Executive Committee. 


MISSIONARY | PAPER. 


Respecting ee the Committee vaya that— 


= Sacha Causes, boven the control of Ae Committee prevented 
them from acting as promptly as was desirable on the question of a 
Missionary periodical, referred to their decision by the Board of Di- 
rectors at their last Annual Meeting. In the month of January of the 
present year, this matter was given into the hands of a select com- 
mittee, by whose report the Executive Committee were influenced to 
the determination to waive the publication of a monthly periodical, to 
be supported by subscription, and to issue one on the conditions which 
have been communicated in the first number of the ‘New Series.’ * 


* Turning to the first number of the “ New Series” of periodical Missionary 
Papers above referred to, issued in March, 1831, we find the following notice: 
“In undertaking to publish a regular series of papers to be continued every 
other month, the Executive Committee are acting in complance with the 
wishes of many of the best friends of Missions, while, at the same time, they 
are influenced by the conviction that such a publication is necessary to inform 
the members of the Church, and to interest them in the pay object of the 
Society. 

“The Missionary Paper will contain a regular eee of the Society’s pro- 
ceedings, copious extracts from the correspondence, and reports of its Mission- 
aries ; together with the most important and encouraging facts collected from 
the publications of other societies, particularly those of our own Church in 
England and elsewhere. . . . . Inorder ta secure the codperation of the 
greatest possible number of persons, and to afford to the friends of Missions 
every facility to do something in this cause, the following regulations will 
be observed respecting the paper: 

“ First. A copy will be sent to every clergyman of the Church in the 
United States. Great reliance is placed upon the clergy. They have it in their 
power to inform their congregations of what the Society is doing; to explain 
the principles and ends of the Missionary work; to assist and direct in the 
formation of auxiliary societies or associations; to recommend and procure 
collections in the churches, and, by their superintending counsel and care, to aid 
the great objects of the Church in this department of labor. If every paro- 
chial clergyman will form an association among his people, or take up an 
annual collection for the Society, or procure subscribers to the parent Society, of 
any amount, though the sums, in many instances, contributed may not be large, 
the aggregate will swell the resources of the Society. The Executive Com- 
mittee affectionately request such aid of the clergy as they may be disposed to 
render. 

“ Second. Auxiliary societies or associations, wich are already formed, or 
which may be formed, upon making known their wishes, will be promptly 
supplied with as many copies of the Missionary Paper as will enable them to 


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1881. Report of the Executive Committee. 137 


What is to be the full effect of this procedure on the interests of 
the Society, remains yet to be determined. From the eagerness, 
however, which has been exhibited, both in this city and elsewhere, 
to obtain copies of the work, and from the assurances received 

the Committee cannot but deduce the conclusion that their 
most sanguine expectations will be more than realized.” 


The Committee, in connection with the above, give extracts 
from letters, a portion of one of which is as follows: 


“TY would, with deference, suggest to the Executive Committee 
the propriety of distributing as freely and as generally as possible, 
the different numbers of the periodical as they may appear. Our 
people want information on these subjects. When they possess | 
such as you give in these papers, they cannot, they will not, with- 
-hold their aid. I have had the interests of the Society much at 
heart myself, but never, until I perused the March number of the 
publication in question, did I so imperiously feel the necessity of 
contributing immediately, both by my exertions and my means, to 
the furtherance of the great objects it has in view. I feel assured 
that similar sensations will be experienced by every individual who 
loves his Church, on perusing the excellent periodical referred to. 
Hence the incalculable advantages which, on a general distribution 
of the paper, will result to the cause of Missions.” 


APPOINTMENTS. 


In the list of appointments, reported this year by the Exec- 
utive Committee, we find'the names of the Rey. John H. Hill 
and wife, to the Mission in Greece, and Solomon Bingham to 
the same Mission; Mr. B. being put in charge of the printing 
department. 


furnish one to each of their contributors. The Secretaries of the auxiliary 
societies or associations, in ordering the papers, are requested to state by what 
conveyance they would wish to have them forwarded. 

“ Third. Individual members of the Church, who have a zeal for missions, 
and are willing .to devote a portion of their time to the sacred cause, if they 
will procure subscribers to the parent Society, of any amount, and undertake 
the agency of the paper, they shall be supplied with as many copies as they 
can procure contributors.” 


138 Report of the Hxecutwe Committee. 1881; 


MISSIONS. 


FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. 


Concerning these, the Executive Committee reported : 


“Very soon after the establishment of this Society, the attentica 
of the Executive Committee was directed to the condition of those 
portions of the earth which are still destitute of the hght of Divine 
truth; and active measures were adopted for extending to them the 
inestimable blessings of the Gospel. As yet, however, causes as 
unexpected as they have been overpowering, have prevented the 
accomplishment of this design. And at this tenth year of the Society’s 
cxistence, it is not able to point its friends to a single Missionary, 
standing under its auspices, on heathen ground. Most deeply do the 
Committee deplore this fact ; and although they cannot accuse either 
themselves, or their predecessors, of being wilfully accessory to this 
circumstance, they would, nevertheless, on account thereof, be 
humbled before God, and earnestly call upon their Christian 
brethren to unite with them in ardent prayer that this reproach 
may be wiped from off the records of the Society, and that this 
Institution may, at length, be numbered among those great 
moral means which the High and Holy One is blessing to the - 
enlightening, converting, and sanctifying of the wretched slaves of 
idolatry and superstition. 


AFRICA. 


“On the preceding anniversary, you were congratulated on the 
bright prospect which was opening before the Society in reference 
to the establishment of a Mission, under the most happy cireum- 
stances, on the coast of Africa. And, certainly, at that time, there 
did appear to exist the most abundant reason why such an expec- 
tation should be cherished. But painful, détterly painful as it 
is to the feelings of the Committee, in making the communication, 
they are, nothwithstanding, bound to inform you, that these pleasing 
hopes have not been realized. A strong conviction of duty, in con- 
nection with a sincere regard for the best interests of the Society, 
has compelled them to suspend indefinitely the measures which were 
announced twelve months ago as in progress, with a view to the 
benefit of this much neglected and degraded quarter of the globe. 


1831. Leport of the Executive Committee. 139° 


And, instead of sending forth an appeal on this occasion, which 
would excite every heart and hand to action in the work of creating 
resources for the support of preachers of righteousness already in 
this benighted land, it becomes their duty once more to raise a cry 
for laborers, and to propose the same inquiry which was heard by 
the Prophet resounding through the Temple, ‘ Who will go for us, 
and whom shall we e§ ie 

“Tt can no longer admit of a question who are to be the instru- 
ments of lifting off the minds of Afric’s sons and daughters that 
thick veil which has so long enveloped them, and to illumine the 
path of their pilgrimage with the radiations of the ‘bright and 
morning star, 

“Tf Ethiopia is ever to cast her imaginary deities to the moles and 
tc the bats, and to stretch forth her hands unto that God who made 
the heaven and the earth, it seems to be reduced to mathematical 
certainty that this great moral revolution can only be effected by 
those of her own children who have been taught in the school of 
Jesus Christ. 

“Ts it not, then, a point worthy the serious consideration of this 
Board, whether it be not expedient to apply ourselves immediately 
to the rearing of an institution bearing upon this momentous 
object? Can we not gather, from among the colored population of 
this country, some whose souls are glowing with love to God and 
man, and train them up for the sublime enterprise of carrying the 
blessings of the Gospel to the homes of their forefathers, and trans- 
forming those barren wilds into a garden of the Lord, luxuriant 
in fragrance and beauty ?” 


GREEK MISSION. 


“In June, 1830, the Executive Committee having been informed 
by the Rey. Mr. Hill that he had been admitted to Holy Orders, 
appointed him (in compliance with a resolution reported to the 
Board at the last meeting) a Missionary of this Society to codperate 
with the Rev. Mr. Robertson in the land of Greece. 

“During the greater part of the time that Mr. Robertson 
remained in America, after his arrival, he was employed in visiting 
different sections of the United States, endeavoring to excite an 
interest in the cause in which he was engaged. Mr. Hill was also 
similarly occupied for about the space of five months. The result 
of those agencies has been of the most favorable character. Every- 


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a, ay 


140 - Report of the Executiwe Committee. 1831. 


where our Missionaries were received with the strongest exhi- 
bitions of kindness. Many friends to the cause of Christianizing 
the world have been raised up by the appeals, in the persons of 
some who had never before given the subject a thought. A deeper 
interest has been excited in the hearts of others, who were already 
alive to this important branch of religious duty. And so many 
other, and such salutary effects have been found to follow 
from their visits, that no doubt can remain that the efforts of the 
Society, in this department of its operations, will be nobly sus- — 
tained by the prayers and benefactions of the members of the 
Church.” , 

“The Committee desire to regard it as a cause of much gratitude 
to God, that they have been able, through the kind exertions of 
individuals in New York and Hartford, to connect a printing 
establisnment with this Mission, and that the individual (Mr. Bing- 
ham) who has been appointed to conduct its operations, came to 
them so highly recommended for the situation. 

“On the 2d of October last, the members of the Mission, viz., 
the Rev. J. J. Robertson and wife, the Rev. J. H. Hill and wife, 
and Mr. Bingham, left Boston in the ship Cherub.* On Sunday, the 


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* The Periodical Missionary Paper, March, 1831, contains a letter from the 
Rev. Alonzo Potter, respecting the embarkation of these Missionaries, as — 
follows: 

“ My Dear Brother: Ihave just returned from a scene which has filled 
me with no ordinary emotion. The ship which contains the first band of Mis- 
sionaries ever dispatched by the American Church to foreign lands, is under 
way. In the hopes and anticipations which gather round her, we forget the 
disappointments and inactivity of the past. 

“ This morning, Oct, 1st, the sun rose upon one of the fairest days which I 
remember to have witnessed. The vessel had been detained one day by the 
wind, and it was a providential detention, for just as the day closed, Mr. Bing- 
ham, the printer, who had been anxiously expected, and who, it was feared, 
must be left behind, arrived. 

“The Missionaries were required to be on board at nine o’clock. At that 
hour, with several of their friends, they arrived at the wharf, and were soon 
placed on board the brig, which had dropped a little down the stream. 

“The brig immediately put under way, with a light, but fair breeze, the 
air deliciously mild, the surrounding scenery, as you tice beautifully pictur- 
esque, the vessel ‘new and very commodious, and the commander courteous and — 
obliging. The party immediately assembled in the cabin, which is for several 
weeks to be the abode of our friends. A hymn was given out by Brother 
Baury, prayers offered by Brother Doane, and the benediction pronounced by 


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THE REV. ALONZO POTTER, 
Rector of St. Paul’s, Boston, 
SUBSEQUENTLY 
Tue Rr, Rey. Dr, Potter, BisHor OF PENNSYLYANIA. 
(From_an Original Portrait by Sully.) 
: 


1831, Report of the Executive Committee. 4a: 


16th of November, they arrived at La Valetta, in the island of 
Malta. On the 1st of December they disembarked from that place, 
and on the 8th of that month reached Tenos. Since the receipt of 
the letters which conveyed the above intelligence, no further com- 
munications have reached the Committee. 


myself. All the members of the Mission seemed in excellent health and 
spirits. They felt that they had the sympathy and prayers, not only of their 
friends here, but of thousands inevery part of the land. Weall felt that they 
were going forth in a good cause, and that, as the first heralds of our Church to 
distant and benightcd nations, they were signally honored .and blessed. If a 
few natural tears were shed, they were shed, not because they or we regretted 
the decision they had made, but because we could not but reflect that the faces 
of these, our brethren and sisters beloved, might be seen by us no more. 

“The last week has been, tothe friends of your Society here,a week of much 
interest. Brother Robertson and his family have been with us, and though 
too much engrossed in preparing to embark to see much of their friends, the 
sympathy, and exertion which were enlisted have satisfied me that your cause 
has a strong hold upon the hearts of many in this city. Several ladies were 
constantly occupied in assisting Mrs. R. . Offerings of books for the Missionary 
library, apparatus for schools, etc., articles of convenience and comfort for the 
voyage, and presents for the Greek Bishops and others, were all the while 
coming in; and there was the strongest disposition evinced on every side to facil- 
itate their departure, and render their passage agreeable. 

“ After spending last Sunday at Cambridge, Mr. R. was to have preached in 
the evening at St. Paul’s, but owing to the unfavorable appearance of the 
weather the sermon was postponed till the evening of Wednesday, the day 
previous to that fixed for sailing. 

“ On the morning of that day, our Diocesan Convention assembled, and thus 
the Bishop and several of the Clergy were providentially present at the last 
public services which the Missionaries performed in America. Mr. Hill and his 
wife arrived from New York, and entered the Church just before Mr. R. com- 
pleted his discourse. A collection was then taken up, amounting to about $125, 
and the Bishop, who, for the purpose of preparing, had kindly waived for a 
short time his other calls of business, delivered an address to the congre- 
gation, and a charge to the Missionaries, distinguished for pertinency and 
affectionate simplicity, and which I hope you will see in print. Mr. Till said 
a few words in reply, and offered up prayers, which concluded the service. 

“On the following evening (the one before they embarked) I was unexpect- 
edly invited to be present, with a few other friends, at their boarding-house, for 
the purpose of exchanging adieus. Some Collects and appropriate prayer 
were offered by our brother Clapp, of Vermont; Mr. Edson and myself said a 
few words each on the importance of the occasion, and the necessity of continued 
supplication in behalf of the Mission, and an address was made by Mr Hill, 
distinguished, as all his services here have been, by unaffected simplicity, zeal, 
and good sense. Several hymns were sung, and the services concluded by Collects 


142 | Report of the Executive Committee. 88H. 


“From La Valetta, Mr. R. writes, that arrangements have been 
made for leaving Mr. Bingham there with Mr. Brennan, who is 
charged with the superintendence of the Church Missionary Society’s 


offered by Mr. Baury, commending them, during their voyage, and after their 
arrival, to the precious care and protection of the Almighty. 

“Thus have I given you a short account of the departure of these servants 
of God. May the smiles of Heaven, which have been so remarkably manifested 
toward this enterprise thus far, continue to rest upon it, till Greece shall be 
made to rejoice through all her borders, in our light, and this cause never look 
back till we shall be summoned from our labors here to give account of our 
stewardship before God.” 


LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS. 


We subjoin the following letter of instructions to the Missionaries, delivered 
to them on the eve of their departure for Greece, by Bishop Griswold, in St. 
Paul’s Church, Boston, September 28, 18380: 


“Special Letter of Instructions to the Rev. J. J. Robertson and Revo. J. H. Hill, 
Missionaries to the Greeks from the Domestic and Foreign Missionary 
Soctety of the Protestant nebo eee Church in the United States of 
America. 


“JT, It will be your endeavor, whilst on shipboard, by your conversation and 
example, to recommend to those around you that holy religion which you are 
going to a distant land to labor to promote; and, whenever the circumstances 
of the ship will permit, you will try to prevail upon the captain to have daily 
morning and evening prayer in the cabin, and regular services for the ship’s 
crew upon the Lord’s day. 

“TJ. It will probably appear to you advisable to provide for your families, 
and for the press under your charge, temporary accommodations, at the expense 
of the Society, either in the island Tinos or Egina, or some other situation not 
so remote from Athens but that you may easily obtain correct information 
whether or not it will be likely to prove, as at present seems highly probable, 
the most eligible situation for the permanent establishment of the press and 
Mission, as well as that you may be the nearer at hand to avail yourselves of 
the earliest opportunity to repair thither should it finally appear most advisable 
to make that renowned city the scene of your future labors. ; 

“TII, You will employ your utmost diligence, both by inquiries of those persons 
who may be best capable of expressing an opinion upon the subject, and also, 
if need be, by excursions for the purpose of personal observation, at the charge 
of the Society, to ascertain the most central and convenient point, whether at 
Athens or elsewhere, for shedding a moral and religious influence most readily 
and most extensively abroad, amongst the Greek population, by means of 
schools, the emanations of the press, and the exercise of your ministry, as far 
as either or all of them can, with prudence and propriety, be employed. 


1881. Report of the Executive Committee. 143 


establishment. He will thus become familiar with many of the 
details of a Missionary press, and be ready to join his when they 
have employment for him. 


“TV. It will be of the utmost importance that no time should be lost in 
bringing your schools and your press into effective operation, even though it 
may be under temporary and inconvenient circumstances. For, as it is by 
means of infant and other schools that the Society hope immediately to con- 
ciliate the favor of the people, whose praise it has long been ‘that they seek 
after knowledge,’ so is it their confident expectation, by the blessing of God - 
upon the productions of an enlightened, well regulated, scriptural press, that 
the greatest amount of practical and lasting good is to be done. With extreme 
solicitude will they await the arrival of the first news from the press and of 
the first productions. 

“V. In your daily familiar conversations, in all your instructions to the 
children committed to your care, in any exercise which may be deemed expe- 
dient of the ministry which has been committed to you, and, above all, in every 
work prepared by you for the press, the Society desire to be understood as 
being very express and peremptory in the expression of the opinion, that you 
are by no means to say, or write, or do anything which may justly give rise to 
the impression that you have visited the Greeks for the purpose of introducing 
another form of Christianity, or establishing another Church, than that in 
which they have been nurtured. Let it everywhere be known that the Church 
of which you are presbyters distinctly and fully recognizes the validity of 
ordination by Greek bishops; that she lays claim to the same undoubted 
marks with the Greek Church of a primitive and apostolic origin; that she 
maintains the same three orders of the ministry, the use of a liturgy in the 
public worship of Almighty God, and many other things which are dcemed to 
be characteristic of Churches of apostolic and scriptural origin. If, in anything, 
the Greek Church may appear to you to have departed from the purity and 
simplicity of primitive times and scriptural example, beware how you make 
them matters of sweeping censure or direct attack. Strive rather, steadily and 
humbly, in the spirit of the meek and lowly Saviour, to restore those amongst 
whom you labor to more just notions of the pure, the only correct scriptural 
standard of Christian doctrines, ceremonies, and practice. Avail yourselves © 
with all diligence of the disposition which God hath given to this ingenious 
and intelligent people to defer simply to the authority of His Holy Word, and 
by life, conversation, and example, as well as by the unvarying tenor of the 
productions of your press, labor to restore to that people the holy simplicity 
and glorious purity of that very Gospel which St. Paul preached amongst 
them. ‘And cease not your labor and diligence until all her prelates and clergy, 
and all estates of men within her pale, are brought, in all things essential, into 
perfect agreement with the Word and Ordinances of the Lord. 

“VI. As you have been appointed Missionaries to’ the Greeks, any effort 
which you can make for the good of the men of that nation, through the 
medium of the press, wherever they may be scatteréd along the shores of the 


144 Report of the Hxuecutive Committee. 1881. 


“A Committee of three gentlemen, viz., the Rev. Alonzo Potter, 
Dr. Hale, and Mr. Howard, has been appointed by the Executive 
Committee, whose duty it is to attend to all matters of business 
relating to the Greek Mission,” 


Mediterranean, whether in Europe or Asia, will fairly come within the limits 
of your instructions. 

“VIT. During the hours of Jeisure or relaxation, it will every way comport 
with the more sacred objects of your mission to obtain such knowledge of the 
history, antiquities, and relics of the enlightened and exalted people who once 
were lords of the country to which you are sent, as will be interesting to men 
of reflection and learning, or may in any way shed light upon literature or the 
Scriptures. The soil, climate, productions, etc., of the region around you; the 
character, manners, and customs; the opinions, habits, and practices, and 
especially the religious views and observances of the Greeks, will deserve 
some passing notice. But particularly all those matters which relate to the 
political, moral, or religious condition and prospects of this interesting portion 
of the downcast Church of Christ, will claim particular attention. Informa- 
tion on all these topics, or any little relic or curiosity which may serve to 
illustrate them, would give a grace and impart an interest to your communica- 
tions to the Society, important and desirable in very many respects. 

“VIII. Whenever you meet with the Missionaries and Agents of kindred 
Christian and benevolent Societies, following the dictates of your own hearts, 
you will, of course, show them all manner of kindness, and render them all 
the aid in your power. But the Society feels a special degree of anxiety that 
you should cultivate a good understanding, more particularly with the Mission- 
aries of those institutions which entertain views similar to those of the Prot- 
estant Episcopal Church on the subject of Church government, and who have 
themselves received Episcopal orders. 

“IX, Without giving to the point any undue prominence, or ever exhibiting 
it ina manner calculated to injure or grieve those who think differently, it 
appears to the Society that it will be your bounden duty to let it be known 
that the Church of which you are presbyters is scripturally Episcopal, and 
diligently to avail yourselves of any advantage which Divine Providence may, 
on this score, be pleased to put into your hands. 

«X. But you are never, for one moment, to forget that to bring home the 
saving truths of Christ’s Gospel to the understanding and hearts of ignorant, 
depraved, and perishing sinners, as it was the object to which, at your ordina- 
tion, you were publicly set apart by the imposition of the hands of the Bishop, 
so is it the great and sacred object for which you are sent abroad by this 
Society, as their Missionaries to the Greeks. 

“ (Signed) B. B. SmirH, 
“One of the Secretaries of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary 
Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United 
States of America. 
“ PHILADELPHIA, North America, September 24, 1830.” 


1881.. Report of the Executive Committee. 145 


At the close of this Report on the Greek Mission, the Execu- 
tive Committee say: 


“Seldom, indeed, have agents entered upon an undertaking with 
qualifications better corresponding with its magnitude. Let, then, 
but those who have so munificently aided the Society in establishing 
this its first Mission on a foreign shore hold up the hands of the 
Missionaries by their fervid supplications at the Throne of Grace, 
and we have nothing to fear with respect to the results. Thousands 
and tens of thousands will arise to call them blessed, and Greece 
will yet become ‘the praise and joy of the whole earth.’ ” 


CONCLUSION OF THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE 
COMMITTEE. 


“We have now presented to you, with all possible brevity, a 
statement of the Society’s proceedings since we last assembled 
within these walls. And we humbly trust that, on a review of the 
whole, you will perceive not a little that is calculated to gladden 
your hearts with regard to the past, and encourage expectation as 
to the future. Certainly on no former occasion have so many 
circumstances been detailed to impress your minds with deep con- 
viction of the vast importance of this institution, or to inspire hope 
in relation to the extending utility of its operations. 

“In conclusion, suffer us, beloved brethren, to ask your fervent 
prayers and those of every follower of the Saviour within the pale 
of our Church, that the light of Jehovah’s countenance may con- 
tinue to rest upon us, and that all our further attempts to perform 
the Divine will and increase the amount of human happiness, may 
be attended with success.” 


TREASURER’S REPORT. 
The whole amount of cash received from May 12, 1830, to May 10, 


Fe areata ai ad cin, o> alps. @ anne nA ge Gieid ole os slo SSO sea $12,764 63 
Pe ereatreneras MISSION ACCOUNT. 6. 6. voces ee ecloe Joes wd nce aceon $3,875 34 
Porton ML eSION ACCOUN te os se ok HAR A. Ee 437 88 

MSCs MLIBSION ACCOM. si) sic ss ee eae geek ee wks 111 40 

Or ema DLISSIOTE ACCOUNE: 2%". os nie goa nes de see wiees aces 148 50 
RiPeMeNIIBETOIE ACCOUNT... .. 6's. 04 cs uae cenlegh steed ceese's 5,356. 59 

Ors OaelOn A CCOUNts ys... sass as Sl ele a — 
reanebay Mission Account ini iicer iicieuie ae oe ees Mice ccs 2,834 92 


$12,764 63 
10 


146 Report of the Executwe Committee. 1881. 


BALANCES. Dr. Cr. 

Florida’ Mission Account,. .:cesie ee eet cee eee . $900 52 
Green Bay. Mission Accountocimyj.ce eet © en's. ele eee 3,231 69 
Domestic Mission Accountiy--e oreo caises oe abla ena 599 62 
Foreign Missidn AccOUMb go eae ti cgiyed: «sent ae ne $1,194 05 
Greek Mission ACcitmbeS Poi Uae oy os oF ao uue so we 1,684 56 
General Mission Aceowht.: 24. 2st Pods eke Sl ee ee 8,262 81 
Liberia Mission Account. ica. pie bes occ ccus is oa sald. oa 83 29 
Permanent Fundss* 5... seme et Ce at ear ys 816 64 
Cash in hands of Treasurer. «2. «4-5 aed<va~ «sg sans one 

PHILADELPHIA, May 10, 1881. - $6,491 35 $6,491 35 


Associations which have pledged themselves to pay annually into the Treasury of 
the Society the sums attached to their respective names : 


Association of St. Luke’s Church, Rochester; N.Y. :./..5:..2. 0...) seus ae $200 00 
Female Association of St. John’s Church, Northern Liberties, Phila. (for five years)... 100 00 
Male Association of St. John’s Church, Northern Liberties, Phila. (for five years)...... 100 00 
Female Association of Trinity Church, Philadelphia... ....... .2.......25.00e000---0-0s 200 00 
Association of St. Stephen’s Church, Philadelphia........<...:..¢..:-0 = «-sss7sseees 200 00 
Female Association of St. Andrew’s Church, Philadelphia..................... ....... 100 00 


Associations which have contributed during the past year, as follows : 


Association of Christ Church, Quincy, Mass..... .........:.  Soaedatihed o's aa PES Poe B27 25 
Female Auxiliary Society of St. Matthew’s Church, Bedford........................... 35 00 
Female Episcopal Missionary Association of Portland......... 22.0... ...e cece eeee eee 50 00 
Female Missionary Association of Christ Church, Stratford ............2.....20-.000-- 50 00 
Female Episcopal Association of Christ Church, Philadelphia........ ..............6.- 100 00 
Missionary Association of St. Paul’s Church, Alexandria, D. C....... ade aie acer eects 130 00 
Missionary Association of Chestertown, Md... i:..02....25. dae ccdh soe sesduectasedoes 10 00 
Missionary Association of St. Paul’s Church, Alexandria, D. C..... + oie. 0, | RRL EES ES 40 56 
Auxiliaty Association of Newburyport, Mass....0..0.. 05. 5..20ccec woes oboe ccscenteecee 30 00 
Missionary Association, St. Peter’s Church, Baltimore............ 0.05.20. c cee eee eees 404 95 
Missionary Association of Christ Church, Georgetown, D.C... ....... ee ec ee eases 117 93 
Missionary Association of Church of the Ascension, New York..............-.......- 206 37 
Robertson Association, Philadelphia. 62. :6055, denen. do bas denauh dace Oe ceedsecceuses 70 00 
Ladies’ Auxiliary Society of St. Matthew’s Church, Plymouth, Conn............ scl hgis ‘ 7 87 
Gentlemen’s Auxiliary Society of St. Matthew’s Church, Plymouth, Conn............. @ 50 
Female Domestic and Foreign Missionary Socicty, Easton, Penn .. .............. ... 60 00 
Female Missionary Society, St. Matthew’s Church, Bedford, N. Y..................... 30 00 
Female Auxiliary Missionary Socicty of St. Michael’s Church, Bristol, R. 1........... 14 00 
Female Missiontty Soticty, Beaufort, S. Cy... 55. fo. es oe; oe 100 00 
Female Missionary Society, St. John’s Church, Portsmouth, N. H..................... 40 00 
Auxiliary Missionary Society, St. Mary’s Church, Newton (Lower Falls),.............. 25 00 
Auxiliary Missionary Society; ChathameConn*.2) 52... . oles) seni ee arene ee 46 50 
Missionary Association, St. John’s Parish, Hagerstown, Md..............202 ceveececes 85 00 
Missionary Association, St. Luke’s Church, Rochester. .....0...0....00cececeessceceess 500 00 
Association of St. Luke’s Parish, Lanesboro’, Mass. ...sscsswss <aascsemeen Jase eee 85 00 
Association of St. James’s Parish, Great Barrington, Mass................00-eeee0e ftv 18000 
Association, Trinity Church; Lenox, Mass... coos sss coc 0.08 ge 0 ces cleanin ane aeennn eee 
Association of St. Paul's Church, Otis, Mass.iof:s..0i0200.2 coc cecsccevscce sue sumeaaui 10 00 
Missionary Association, Trinity Church, Philadelphia... 0.2.0... 5... .ccccccececeeuces 60 00 
Missionary Society, St. George’s Church, Fredericksburg, Va...................00+ ose 100 50 


Auxiliary Missionary Society, St, Peter’s Church, Amboy .................scceccceeee 2 %5 


1832. Trienmial Meeting. 147 
Female Missionary Association, St. Paul’s Church, Portland, Me.............ceeecevees 43 00 
Female Auxiliary Episcopal Missionary Society of Leesburg, Va........ ..ceceeceeeees 20 00 
Missionary Association, Georgetown, D. C.........5 2. cee cee eee PPR s Tetrtets + 5 98 96 
Auxiliary Society, St. Paul’s Church, Woodbury, Vt........ ........ - AAA Sa Ree ee 11 00 
Female Missionary Society of St. James’s Church, Lancaster, Pa..............0eeeeeee “6 00 
Missionary Association, Christ Church, Quincy, Mass. ...2......0.. ceeececcccecucceces 24 00 
Female Missionary Society, St. Andrew’s Church, Mount Holly................ .ee0es 37 00 
Missionary Society, St. George’s Church, Fredericksburg, Va ........... 0.0. cece eee 40 37 
Ladies’ Association, Grace Church, Philadelphia....-. 0 2. coc occ ec cc cc en ec ccec ees 15 50 
Missionary Society, Antrim Parish, Halifax County, Va................ ccc ccec eee ees 60 00 
Female Missionary Association, St Stephen’s Church, Philadelphia.... ... SAP EANE 206 50 
Female Missionary Association of All Saints’ Parish, Fredericktown, Md............. 100 00 
uatueary Missionary Association Of Providence, R. 1. ic... on. sce eee cone Seemed 125 %5 
Female Missionary Association of St. George’s Church, Milford, Conn.:.......... Eh 5 00 
Missionary Association of Theological Seminary, Alexandria........... .....c.ce ce ees 85 00 
Female Benevolent Society, Christ Church, Washington City................ 0.0. econ ee 61 10 
Association of Ladies at Hagerstown....2..0 0.0... cece cc ceccceeeceececeeeecavacs 60 00 
Foreign Missionary Society, Hancock County, Va...: 2... 2.066. he cee cece eee e ew eees "5 50 
Juvenile Missionary Society, Hanover County, Va......... 0... ccc cece cece cece eee ceees 14 50 
Female Missionary Society, Christ Church, Savannah.............. 060.0 c 0 cece ccc eee 48 00 
emcee oucie of Industry, Bellows Halls, Viti. 0.5. cece lee beee enn sevwametewnecee st 97 00 
Female Foreign Missionary Society, Richmond, Va................. cee ceeeecee eee -... 100 00 
Domes smorrety Of FTOVIGENCE. 2.020 r Sk Ea iw one cited Ed hae ee a ok oF 84 25 
Female Missionary Society, St. James’s Church, Leesburg, Va.................- ees 20 00 
St. George’s Church, New York....... BPMN i Mgkire nta ist as Glia Monon aingnae eee ay 500 00 
Episcopal Missionary Society of Portsmouth, N. H................ LARIEIS dc has EL see 14 25 
Ladies’ Industrious Society of Troy, N. Y.........6..0 cece eee cence cee Bees yee Mae crate 100 00 
Episcopal Missionary Society of Hartford) Conn. 2.2.2... co.cc cee ccc cee cette eee 336 00 
Female Forcign Missionary Socicty, Hopkinton, N. H..... 2... cee eee eee eee ee 118 85 
Juvenile Missionary Society, St. Peter’s Church, AMbOY.............. 0. cece eee ee eee 10 00 
Episcopal Female Domestic Missionary Socicty of Christ Church, Middletown........ 30 00 
Ladies’ Sewing Society of Waterbury, Comn...... 0... fi. cee cece ee dace ee eeececsesseees 80 00 
Female Association, St. Peter’s Church, Salem, Mass............. 0.0. eee eeeeeeeeceees 67% 


TRIENNIAL MEETING, 1832. 


A Stated Meeting of the Board of Directors was held in St. 
John’s Chapel, in the city of New York, October 18, 1832, at 
half-past four p.m 

Present, The Rt. Rev. Bishop Meade; the Rev. Messrs. Croes, 
_Presstman, Cuming, Kemper, Sohinea Clap, Edson, Weller, 
DeLancey, and Mead, and Messrs. P. H. Nicklin, E. A. Newton, 
and Floyd Smith. And at subsequent sessions of the Board— 

The Rt. Rev. Bishops Brownell and B. T. Onderdonk; the 
Rev. Drs. Milnor, Montgomery, B. B. Smith (Bishop elect of 
Kentucky), and the Rev. Messrs. Weller and C. Chase. 

After prayers the Secretary laid before the Board a report of 
the Society’s proceedings for the last three years, which was 
referred to a special. committee. 


148 Triennial Meeting. 1822, 


The Executive Committee presented their Annual Report. 

At this stage of the proceedings the Board adjourned to 
attend the Triennial Meeting of the Society. 

At a subsequent session of the Board, a committee was ap- 
pointed to draft the Annual Report of the Board of Directors, 
and their Report was subsequently adopted, and ordered to 
be presented to the Society at its present Triennial Meeting. 

Bishop White was unanimously appointed to preach the 
Triennial Sermon before the Society. 

It was preached on the 22d of October, in St. John’s Chapel, 
and subsequently published. The title of the sermon was, “ Of 
the Increase of the Church,” the text being taken from St. Luke’s 
Gospel, xiii. 18, 19. 

Proper notice was taken by the Board of the decease of the 
Rt. Rev. Bishop Croes, of New Jersey. 

Arrangements were made for an Annual Sermon before the 
Board, on Thursday evening, the 25th Oct., at St. Thomas’s 
Church. Name of the preacher not given. 

A committee was appointed, in compliance with the request 
of the Executive Committee, to consider and report to the Board 
what measures can be adopted to effect a more extensive union 
of effort in behalf of this Society. 

That committee subsequently reported as follows: 


“The Committee of the Board of Directors of the Domestic and 
Foreign Missionary Society, appointed for the purpose, here beg 
leave to report: That they consider some system of measures which 
shall bring correct information relative to Missionary movements 
before every contributor, at regular and short intervals, and which 
shall combine these contributors, in all parts of the country, into 
proper Associations and Auxiliaries, is indispensably necessary to 
the effective operations of the Society. In order to effect these 
objects, they beg leave to submit the following resolutions: 

“ Resolved, That the publication of some Missionary, or other 
periodical paper, upon the principle of subscription, at least monthly, 
be authorized, under the direction of the Executive Committee, and _ 
every effort made to promote its extensive circulation. 

“ Resolved, That a General Agent be appointed, at least for 
such a period as that Auxiliaries shall be formed in most of the 


1832. Triennial Meeting. 149 


Dioceses, and Associations in most of the parishes of our country 3 
and that he be allowed such compensation as the Executive Com- 
mittee may be pleased to appropriate for this purpose.” 


The first resolution was adopted. 
The second resolution was amended, and adopted as follows: 


“That it be recommended to the Executive Committee to 
appoint one or more General Agents, at least for such period,” etce., 
as above. 


The following persons were, upon nomination, appointed to 
serve as an Executive Committee, until the next meeting of the 


Board: | 


Rev. James Montgomery, p.p., Mr. P. H. Nicklin, 


“ G. Boyd, | “ C. Wheeler, 

* 6G. T. Bedell, /p.p., “¢ LL. R. Ashhurst, 
oa O. tA Smith, “ J. C. Biddle, 
Pew. Lyng-b.v: Dr. C. Morris, 

“ H. J. Morton. J. Wiltbank. 


Treasurer—Mr. Jacob Lex. 

Auditor—M. C. N. Bancker. 

Trustees of the Permanent Fund.—Messrs. C. N. Bancker, J. 
Read, and J. Lex. 


The following resolutions were adopted : 


“Resolved, That the Report of the Board of Directors, for the 
last seventeen months, be referred to the Executive Committee, to 
publish such portions as to them may appear expedient.” 


The Secretary having laid before the Board a letter from a 
clergyman, offering his services to the Society in the capacity of 
a General Agent, it was 


“* Resolved, 'That all communications in reference to this subject 
be referred to the Executive Committee. 

““ Resolved, That the question concerning the amount of com- 
pensation to be appropriated to the office of Secretary of the 
Society be referred to the Executive Committee, with power to 
take order.” 


150 Triennial Meeting. 1832, 


The Board of Directors adjourned sine die, on Monday, Octo- 
ber 29th. Portions of their Report, referred to in the foregoing 
proceedings, will be entered in due course. 


We now proceed to give particulars of the Triennial Meeting 
of the Society, October, 1832: 


The Society met in St. John’s Chapel, New York, October 
18, 1832—Bishop Meade in the chair. Names of persons 
present not given in published proceedings; supposed, however, 
to be the same as those who attended the meeting of the Board 
of Directors, at an earlier hour. 

It was, on motion, 


“* Resolved, That the General Convention be respectfully request- 
ed to take into consideration the exigencies of the Society in 
relation to time for the transaction of its business, and to nominate 
as early a day as possible when the concerns of the Society may be 
attended to.” 


Bishop Meade and Dr. Montgomery were appointed a com- 
mittee to communicate the foregoing resolution to the General 
Convention, then in session. 

A committee was appointed to nominate a suitable person to 
act as Secretary of the Society for the next three years, and 
twenty-four others to serve as Directors for the same period. 

The Committee reported, at a later day, the following names: 


Maine, Rev. J. Clap, 
8. Greenleaf, Esq., 
New Hampshire, S. Pierce, Esq., 
Massachusetts, Rev. J. 5. Stone, 
Vermont, ‘“¢ A. Bronson, 
| ** Carlton Chase, 
Connecticut, “« N.S. Wheaton, p.p., 
‘¢ H. Croswell, 
New York, “ F. L. Hawks, p.p., 


Floyd Smith, Esq., 
New Jersey, Rev. G. Y. Moorehouse, 


1882. } Triennial Meeting. 151 


Pennsylvania, Rey, J. C, Clay, 
) * G, A, Smith, 
S. Hi Tyog, 2.B,; 
C. N. Bancker, Esq., 
J.C. Biddle, Esq., 
C. Wheeler, Esq., 
L. R. Ashhurst, Esq., 
Paul Beck, Esq., 


Delaware, Rey. I. Pardee, 

Maryland, “OW. EL. Wyatt, v.p., 

Virginia, oie Ww. Ducachet..m.n., 
pooeak. MeGuire, 

South Carolina, “ ©, E. Gadsden, v.v. 


Secretary—Rev, P, Van Pelt. 


The above named persons were duly elected. 


Monpay, October 22. 
Society met. The Rt. Rev. Bishop Brownell in the chair. 
Thanks were voted to the Rt. Rev. Bishop White for his 
sermon, and a copy requested for publication. 
At a subsequent meeting, the following resolution was 
adopted : 


“‘ Fesolved, That, in accordance with the Tenth Article of the Con- 
stitution, a committee be appointed to prepare, from the general 
view of the proceedings of the Board of Directors for the last three 
years, a Report, to be presented to the Convention during its 
session, as the Report of the Society.” 


On motion of the Secretary, it was 


“ Resolved, So to alter the Third Article of the Constitution, as 
that it shall read thus: 

“The Society shall meet triennially, at the place in which the 
General Convention shall hold its session. The time of meeting 
shall be appointed by the Board of Directors, at their first meeting 
during the session of the General Convention. members shall 
be necessary to constitute a quorum to do business.” 


152 Report of the Board of Directors. 1882. 


Sr. Tuomas’s Cuurcu, /riday, October 26—-9 P.M. 

Society met, after public Missionary meeting. The Rt. Rev. 
Bishop Griswold in the chair. 

The Secretary having communicated to the Society that the 
alteration in their Constitution, adopted at the last meeting, 
had received the sanction of the General Convention, and that 
the Convention had proposed the number nine as the quone 
necessary to do business, it was, on motion, 


“ Resolved, That this amendment be accepted.” 


The Society adjourned, sine die, October 29, 1832. 


We now proceed to record such portions of the 


REPORT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 


at this meeting, October, 1832, as the design of this work may 
seem to require. 

At the beginning of the Report, mention is made, in suitable 
terms, of the death of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Croes, of New Jersey, 
and of that of the Rev. E. Rutledge, formerly Secretary of the 
Board. 


The Report proceeds as follows : 


“¢ PUNDS. 


“The amount received by the Treasurer, from May 12, 1831, to 
May 12, 1832, is $16,443.20, and from the last mentioned date to 
October of the same year, the sum of $10,239.17. The contribu- 
tions of the year, commencing with May 12, 1831, exceed by 
$3,678.57, those of the preceding twelve months. 


** DONATIONS. 


“From the American Tract Society there has been received the 
sum of $300, to aid in the Tract operations of our Missionaries in 
Greece. %, 

“From the Editors of the following Periodicals, a copy regularly 
of their respective publications: ‘The Gambier Observer ;’ ‘The 
Episcopal Recorder ;’ ‘Gospel Messenger’ (Auburn, New York) ; 
‘Banner of the Church ;’ ‘Gospel Messenger’ (Charleston, South 
Caro..na); ‘The Presbyterian;’ ‘ Philadelphian ;’ ‘The Missionary 


1892. Report of the Board of Directors. 153 


Reporter;’ ‘The Missionary Herald;’ ‘The U. B.’s Missionary 
Intelligencer; ’ ‘The African Repository and Colonial Journal.’ 

“From the Episcopal Tract Society of New York, and the Protes- 
tant Episcopal Female Tract Society of Baltimore, a large supply of 
their publications for the use of our Domestic Missionaries. 

“From the Rev. Mr. Wolle, Pastor of the United Brethren’s 
Church, Philadelphia, a set of the U. B.’s ‘ Missionary Intelligencer,’ 
from the period of its commencement in 1822, to the present time. 

“From the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mis- 
sions, a complete collection of their publications. 

“From the Rey. G. W. Doane, one hundred copies of his Sermon, 
entitled the ‘ Missionary Spirit.’ 

“From the Rev. Mr. Richmond, a number of copies of his dis- 
course delivered with reference to the Mission of the Bishop of 
Connecticut in the Valley of the Mississippi. 

“From the Rev. G. A. Smith, four quarto volumes of ‘Sermons 
and Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Society for the Propaga- 
tion of the Gospel in Foreign parts.’ 

“From Mr. Isaac N. Whiting, of Columbus, Ohio, one hundred 
copies of ‘Simeon on the Excellency of the Liturgy.’ 

“From Mr. F. J. Huntington, of Hartford, Connecticut, one 
dozen copies of an Atlas, designed to illustrate the Malte-Brun 
School Geography, and fifty-one volumes of useful books. 

“From Mr, William Muenscher, of Providence, R. I., thirty-five 
copies of a work, ‘On the Objections commonly urged against a 
Prescript form of Common Prayer.’ 


‘¢ BEQUESTS. 


“Tn August, 1831, a legacy of $500 was received from the Execu- 
tor of William Smith, Esq., of Troy, New York, bequeathed by him 
for the general purposes of the Society. 

“In January, 1832, information was given to the Committee, 
by the Rev. Carlton Chase, Rector of Immanuel Church, Bellows 
Falls, Vt., that Miss Lucia Hall, a member of his Church, died in 
1831, leaving a considerable estate, and by her will, after sundry 
legacies, directed that the residue of her property should be equally 
divided between the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 
the American Bible Society, and the American Education 
Society. The proportion coming to this Society, it is expected, 
will exceed somewhat $1,000. 


154 Report of the Board of Directors. 1882. 


‘‘EXERTIONS OF INDIVIDUALS. 


“ Valuable services have been voluntarily rendered to the Society 
by numerous individuals, To these the Board would take occasion 
to render their grateful acknowledgments. Their best reward con- 
sists in their consciousness of doing good. Especially are the 
Board under obligations to the ladies of Christ Church, St. John’s 
and St. Stephen’s, Philadelphia, and of St. George’s, Hempstead, 
Long Island, for the munificent contributions presented by them as 
the result of exhibitions and sales of fancy articles, prepared particu- 
larly for the Society’s benefit. | 


‘* ADDITIONAL MEMBERS. 


“Tt is a melancholy fact, that since the meeting of the Board in 
1831, there has been an accession of but eleven names to the list of 
those who pay an annual subscription of $3 or more, of twenty- 
three to the list of life members, and of twelve to the list of patrons. 

‘Whole number of members at the present time, fifty-eight ; 
Life members, eighty-five; Patrons, one hundred and eight. 


*¢ AUXILIARY ASSOCIATIONS, 


“ Believing, as the Board do, that there is no more certain way 
of furthering the interests of the Society, and giving to it strength 
and stability, than by the establishment of Auxiliary Associations, it 
is to them a cause of rejoicing that they are privileged to report the 
following accession to their former number; viz., 1 at Jamaica, 
Long Island; 1 at Flushing, do.; 1 at Hempstead, do. ; 1 at the 
Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary, New York; 1 at 
Boardman, Ohio; 1 at Medina, Ohio; 1 at Homer, New York; 1 at 
Moravia, New York; 1 at Cincinnati, Ohio; 1 at New London, 
Connecticut; 1 at Bridgeport, Connecticut; 1 at Troy, New York; 
1 at Fairfield, Vermont; 1 at Sheldon, Vermont; 1 at St. Martin’s 
Parish, Hanover Co., Virginia; 1 at Baltimore, Md.; 1 at Windsor, 
Vermont; 1 at Salem, New Jersey. 

“The Board regret that it is not in their power to present a cata- 
logue of all the Associations auxiliary to the Society. Various 
means have been adopted to accomplish this desirable object, but 
without success. The only institutions of this character, of whose 
existence we have been officially apprised, are here given, in con- 


1882. Report of the Board of Directors. 


155 


nection with the amounts paid by them into our Treasury, since the 


meeting of the Society, in May, 1831. 


Auxiliary Missionary Society, Christ Church, Richmond, Va..... ....... 
Auxiliary Missionary Society, Immanuel Church, New Castle Delaware... 
Association, St. John’s Church, Carlisle, Pa..........0.... 0... cee cece eee 
$ Association St. Stephen’s Church, Wilkesbarre......... .... 
Association, St. John’s Church, Salem, N. J...... 0... ce eee eee eee eee 
Association, Grace Church, Jamaica, L. I............. 0... cee cece ee eeee 
First Male Association, St. John’s Church, Baltimore....................-. 
First Female f te ST TOES es Mapa eged AP AN nage 
Association, St. Ann’s Church, Brooklyn, L. I...............0.. ccaceeceee 
Ladies’ Association, Trinity Church, Fairfield, Vt...................00000. 
Association, Christ Church, Baltimore, Md.......... 60.0 Jc e cee eee eee 
Association, P. E. Theological Seminary, Alexandria..... ITA Sepia 
Association, St. Martin’s Parish, Hanover Co., Va..............--.-2..00- 


Association, St. Peter’s Church, Perth Amboy, N. Jd............... 0.00 eee 
Female Association, bea Church, Middletown, Conn.......... ........ 


Ladies’ Domestic and Foreign Missionary Association, St. James’s Church, 

Sue EEN FICA TIE CLONI yeveie | erenl cc ale area. Siaie sions cies ane sw duiniaia es waenlergeteraers 
Missionary and Education Society, St. George’s Church, N. Y............ 
Female Missionary Society, * Soiees 5 205 Sige UNE 
Female Missionary Association, St. Mary's Church, Burlington, N. J...... 
Missionary Association, St. John’s Church, Bridgeport, Conn............. 
Foreign Missionary Association, St. Paul’s Church, Boston............... 
Female Foreign and Domestic Missionary Society, Trinity Church, Easton, 


Female Missionary Association, Trinity Church, Southwark, Philadelphia. 
Female Sewing Society, St. Ann’s Church, Annapolis, Md................ 
Missionary Association, St. Peter’s Church, Baltimore.................... 
Missionary Association, Ascension Church, N. Y............-. e020 2eee eens 
Ladies’ Missionary Society of Beaufort, S. C...... 2... cee cee eee eee ee eee 
Missiounny oaciety of Medina, ODIO. sc. gi... 5. see ec ge tne set ewnscme canes 
Missionary Association, St. John’s Church, Troy.........,.....0- cse00ee+ 
Ladies’ Missionary Association, St. John’s Church, Essex, CON, foes 5 a. 
Female Society, St. Andrew’s Church, Philadelphia....................... 
Missionary Society, St. George’s Church, Fredricksburg, Va..............- 
Missionary Association, Georgetown, D.C... ....... 2... cece eee eee eee eee 
Female Missionary Society, St. Georce’ s Church, Flushing, L. I Santeiotue ts 
Ragics’ Circle of Industry, Baltimore... .. 2.06. cesses ccecacecgensces ses 
Association, St. Luke's Church, Rochester, N. Y...............2.00eeeeeee 
Female Association, St. John’s Church, N. L. Philadelphia......... ..... 
Missionary Society, Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary, Gambier, 


Female Episcopal Missionary Society, Richmond, Va.................. ce 
Missionary Association, P. E. Theological Seminary at N. Y.............. 
Missionary Association, St. Mary’s Church, Newton, Lower Falls, Mass.. 
Female Missionary Society, St. John’s Church, Portsmouth N. H......... 
Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, Christ Church, Winchester. 


Ladies’ Association, St. Paul’s Church, Portland, Me....................2- 
Association, Trinity Church, Wilmington, Delaware................ ...0s 


1831 
$31 59 
23 00 
30 00 
23 15 
10 00 
200 00 
50 00 
150 00 
867 5 
11 58 
120 00 
60 00 
55 00 
55 00 
10 00 
30 00 
30 00 


12 00 


38 00 
300 00 
100 00 

80 00 

%5 00 
250 00 


40 00 
50 00 
30 60 
207 92 
40 00 
100 00 
22 00 
100 00 
10 00 
200 00 


1832 


$31 00 
50 00 
17 98 


150 00 


744 68 


47 46 


13 10 


265 57 
378 66 
165 00 


50 00 
87 06 
90 45 
50 00 
235 %0 
250 00 
800 00 


100 00 
100 00 
71 00 
80 00 
40 00 


52 50 
24 50 
50 00 


156 Report of the Board of Directors. 1882. 


Female Missionary Society, St. Andrew’s Church, Mt. Holly, N. J...... aes $44 25 


Female Missionary Society, Christ Church, Savannah............ ...++- a 80 00 
Missionary Association of Antrem Parish, Halifax Co. Va............-..-- 40 00 
Ly we Calvary ChurchylomeraN: Ye.a.s:<-- 2) s--les eae 19 00 
ig rs St. Matthew's Church, Moravia, N. Y............ 3 %5 
se MY Christ, Church, Philadelphia... 5. -.2...- 22sec 350 00 
ee i St. Stephen’s Church, Philadelphia.............. 300 00 
Female Missionary Association, St. Matthew’s Church, Bedford, N. Y..... 25 00 
Auxiliary Missionary Society, St. Paul’s Church, Cincinnati, Ohio........ 80 00 
Missionary Society, Christ Church, Hartford, Conn.................-..008. 250 00 
Auxiliary Missionary Society, of Massachusetts.................-.-eeeeees 207 00 
Male and Female Missionary Society, St. Matthew’s Church, Plymouth, 

(016) 1) eRe ae are <A AA SAT iio ese Go GOAN DOSOTEtccho cus 17 00 
Missionary Association, Grace Church, Philadelphia.................3.. é 13 50 
Ladies’ Circle‘of Industry, Bellows’ Malls) (Vier. jon-cceuses «ee elteieltsiee eee 50 00 
Ladies’ Association, Christ Church, Stratford, Conn...... ... ........-.-- 75 00 
Auxiliary Foreign Missionary Society, St Martin’s Parish, Hanover Co., 

Vai. TAGS a cock aa tea le cone Be ed siege tee ley Lote en SRP Ran eto eet ne eerie 50 00 
Auxiliary Missionary Society, St. James’s Parish, Boardman, Ohio onestoe 25 00 
Episcopal Missionary Society, Frederick, Md...............2.. .eseeecccce 150 00 
Auxiliary Association, St. George’s Church, Hempstead, L. L.............. 170 00 
Missionary Association, St. John’s Church, Brideepos wens she dea hiccueee 83 00 
Juvenile Missionary Society, “oF aati cdi 6 2S Ree 12 00 


$2,911 99 $5,440 16 


“The subjoined sums have been contributed by the Societies to 
whose titles they are respectively annexed. But whether these As- 
sociations were established for the express purpose of aiding this 
Institution, or are to be considered as particularly devoted to its in- 
terests, is a question which we are not able to determine. 


1831 1832 

Female Missionary Society, Christ Church, N. Brunswick, N. J........... $50 00 
Association, St. Andrew’s Church, Meriden, Conn.. .........-...2eseceeee 6 00 
Association, St. Paul’s Church, Philadelphia................. oe crannies Me 200 00 $193 24 
New York Female Association, St. John’s Church, N. Y...............--. 60 00 
Missionary Society, Grace Church, N. Y...............000 sees Ne ahieee tener 144 00 
Female Sewing Society, Bishop Meade’s Congregation, Va................. 75 00 
Episcopal Missionary Society, Newburyport, Mass.................2--00- 28 37 
Female Missionary and Education Society, St. Albans, Vt................ 14 00 
Juvenile Missionary Society, Christ Church, Middletown, Conn........... 8 00 
Auxiliary Missionary Society, lcesbure, Vasc. ase ee on oes eee ee 86 00 20 00 
Missionary Association, St. Michael’s Church, Litchfield, Conn............ 84 25 
Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, St. Paul’s Church, Alexandria, 

1h iy Cea rare nee emir Ie ree Ro cll al Gaerne, po 115 00 
Juvenile Mite Society of St. Paul’s Church, Alexandria, D. C............. 20 00 
Female Missionary Association, Trinity Church, Saco. Me................ 30 00 
Missionary Society, St. John’s Parish, Waterbury, Conn.................. 22 00 
Episcopal Missionary Society, Trinity Church, Chatham, Conn............ 45 60 
Ladies’ Industrious Society, St. Paul’s Church, Troy, N. Y....... ........ 50 00 
Sewing Society, St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia,............. aie ocorerstarsteeeee 50 00 
Ladies’ Association, St Paul’s Church, Rochester, N. Y............-...0-. 80 00 
Female Missionary Society, Chestertown, Md................2.cceeeeeeeee 25 00 
Missionary Association, St. James’s Church, Arlington, Vt.. ............. 30 00 


Ladies’ Society of Industry attached to Christ Church, Winchester, Va.. 30 00 


1882. Report of the Board of Directors. 157 
Sunday School Juvenile Missionary Society of Christ Church, Winches- 

re ete rene TR eats heel ko al siecscck Naja vue « j.a;'s10'» ocaie dhe cc ya eee es $11 55 
Auxiliary Female Society in Bishop Meade’s Congregation. .............. 60 00 

fi Missionary Society, Zion’s Church, St. Andrew’s Parish, Jeffer- 

TT a oie, e gliacarcig sale a canis sc.av'e v0 cb dn cnedguseaeae 65 00 
Female Missionary Association, St. John’s Church, Washington, D. C..... 20 00 
Missionary Association, Christ Church, Watertown, Comn.............. 26 00 
Association of Young Ladies at New Glasgow, Amherst Co., Va.. ....... 10 00 
Missionary Association of St. Ann’s Church, South Farnham Parish, 

NSPE TSG, fo See: ltd WOR Treas dd ee sae cna c Seve cdecens caleies 85 85 
Female eiilanthropic Society, St. J ohn’s Church, feeaidence: clea aecs 200 00 
Missionary Association, St. Andrew’s Parish, Brana ick Co., Va., and 

Missionary Association, Bath Parish, Dinwiddie Co., Va................ 81 %5 
Ladies’ Benevolent Society, Trinity Church, Newtown, Conn.............. 10 00 
Auxiliary Missionary Society, St. Peter’s Church, Salem, Mass............ 12 34 
Missionary Society, St. James’s Church, Greenfield, Conn................ 15 00 
Female Missionary Association, St. John’s Parish, Yonkers, N. Y......... 150 00 


$621 37 $1,441 98 


« Amounts contributed by the different States from May 12, 1831, to October 
12, 1882. 


Maine, : : : : : : ; ‘ i ; ; : $220 50 
Vermont, : Net ; , ; : : F : ; 165 58 
Massachusets, d 5 F ; ; ; : ; , é 2 1,075 84 
Rhode Island, P Zé ; : . é : ‘ : 154 00 
New Hampshire, : ‘ : ‘ ; : ‘ : : : 62 00 
Connecticut, . : ‘ : : : : é ; : ; 1,120 36 
New York, . ; : : 2 ; : - ; ‘ : : 9,011 03 
New Jersey, , . ; : : ° : : : : 5 : 438 75 
Ohio, ; , : : ; : 2 : ; : ; 5 269 00 
Pennsylvania, : : ; : 3 ‘ : : é : 7,212 12 


Delaware, . ; y F ; ; ‘ : , : ‘ : 143 90 
Maryland, ; , : Z ; : . : , : 2,123 36 
Virginia, ; é : , . 3 : : ‘ : : » 2,205 82 


North Carolina, ‘ ; a ‘ , : ‘ : : : 19 50 
South Carolina, . : , F ; : ‘ ‘ ; ; : 448 75 
District of Columbia, : : : ; : : : . : 429 35 
‘Georgia, : , : : : : : : ean P ' 40 00 
Louisiana, ‘ , ‘ ; : 5 ‘ : : ‘ ‘ 146 62 
Mississippi, : ‘ : ‘ ‘ ‘ ; ; : : : 23 00 


$25,308 58 
“GENERAL AGENT. 

“Tt being the unanimous conviction of the Board that the pros- 
perity of the Society would be greatly advanced by the appoint- 
ment of a General Agent, they elected, in October last, the Rev. 
Henry J. Whitehouse to occupy this important station. Mr. W. 
having declined serving the Society in this capacity, a long inter- 


val elapsed ere the Board could regard themselves as providentially 


158 Report of the Board of Directors. 1892. 


directed to the choice of another individual. At length, in June of 
the current year, an offer of the situation was made to the Rev. Dr. 
Kemper, but as yet the Board have not been made acquainted with 
his determination. 

‘“MISSIONARY PAPER. 


“The Board, at their last meeting, adopted a resolution directing 
a Missionary Paper to be issued monthly, in a pamphlet form of 
sixteen octavo pages, at one dollar per annum, and that copies 
should be furnished gratuitously to the members of the Associations 
auxiliary to the Society. 

“With reference to the necessary provision of matter for such a 
publication as the Directors had im view, requests have been pre- 
sented to the various Missionary Institutions in Europe and America, 
which give a public exposition of their operations through the me- 
dium of the press, for a regular supply of their works. 

“ While awaiting the result of these applications, the Missionary 
Paper has been continued to the present time, in the same form 
which characterized the first appearance of the ‘New Series, and 
without any change of the conditions on which it was then issued. 
A number has been published at the end of every two months, and 
a copy thereof transmitted to every Episcopal clergyman within the 
United States, who was professionally employed. 

“Such of the Associations in connection with the Society as pre- 
sented requests to this effect, have been supplied with a sufficiency 
for all their members. And copies. have also been circulated 
throughout our country, among individuals who were known to be 
interested in the cause of Missions. 


“PLAN FOR INCREASING THE RESOURCES OF THE SOCIETY. 


“The proposition made by a friend of the Society in Maine, for 
improving the pecuniary condition of this Institution, by a dona- 
tion of $50 per annum, for five years, provided ninety-nine other 
persons would contr thats the same sum, has not succeeded accord- 
ing to the expectation and desire of its benevolent author. 

“There are at present only twenty-three names on the list in aid 
of this cause. 


“PLAN FOR ACCOMMODATING THE MISSION TO GREECE WITH SUITABLE 
BUILDINGS. 


“In October, 1831, a letter was received from another friend of 


1892. Leport of the Board of Directors. 159 


the Society in Maine, enclosing ten dollars to aid in the erection of 
edifices, for the accommodation of our schools and Mission families 
in Greece, and proposing the question, whether there could not be 
found, within the borders of our Church, three hundred individuals 
who would, in this respect, imitate his example? This contribu- 
tion, together with the inquiry, having been communicated to the 
public through the medium of the Missionary Paper, one hundred 
and thirty persons have become patrons of this excellent design, 
most of whom have also paid the amount of their subscriptions.” 


FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. 


This part of the Report of the Board of Directors we give 
entire. It is chiefly devoted to the Greek Mission, which was 
the first Foreign Mission (as we now understand the term) which 
was established and entered upon by our Church. This is the 
first Report, and goes so fully into designs and methods as to 
furnish the reader with a full idea of what was proposed, and of 
the means used for the accomplishment of the purpose. 


‘* GREEK MISSION, 


“The communication made to the Board by the Executive Com- 
mittee on the 10th of May, 1831, brought down the history of this 
Mission to the period of the arrival of the Missionaries at Tenos. 
During their residence at that place, their time was occupied in 
acquiring a knowledge of the language of the country, acquainting 
the inhabitants with the object of the Mission, instructing a few of 
the most respectable Greeks in the English language, and preparing 
themselves for the execution of the duties of their appointment. 
And here it is but an act of justice to the authorities of Greece to 
notice their courteous reception of our Missionaries, and the many 
kindnesses which were bestowed upon them. The furniture, print- 
ing-presses, and other effects belonging to the Mission, were suffered 
to be landed without duties; and the usual period of quarantine,.on 
the return of Mr. Hill from a visit to Smyrna, shortly after his 
arrival in Greece, was lessened one half. Nor were friendly acts 
extended to our Missionaries only by those in power. To use their 
own language, everywhere they met with civility, and they might 
almost have grown vain with the compliments which they heard 
repeated from every quarter and from all classes in regard to their 
native land, and particularly its distinguished love for Greece. 


160 Report of the Board of Directors. 1882. 


“Our Missionaries had always looked forward to Athens as the 
most desirable locality for the Missionary establishment. Their 
preference of this situation above all others was grounded on its 
central position, its facilities of communication, its salubrity, and 
the fact that it would be the resort of many foreigners, through 
whom their influence and operations might be greatly extended. 
Accordingly, in the spring of 1831, they made a visit to Athens, 
with the view of making such arrangements as their removal to that 
city required. Previous to their return to Tenos, and after much 
consultation and deliberation upon the subject, they came to the 
conclusion that it would be expedient to purchase a lot of ground 
for the purpose of erecting edifices for the accommodation of the 
Mission. They thought this could be done without any risk, 
because, in case the Society should refuse them permission to build, 
they had no doubt of selling their purchase for the original cost, 
and were also well assured that property, instead of diminishing in 
value, would be continually on the increase for a considerable period 
in prospective. After much difficulty, they succeeded in renting a 
house for the coming year, at the rate of $275 per annum, and in 
purchasing an excellent building site, occupying about an English 
acre, for the sum of $170. Having thus closed their business, they 
returned to Tenos on the 26th of May, for the transportation of 
their families and effects to Athens, where the whole Mission band 
arrived about the close of June following. On the 18th of July, 
Mrs. Hill opened a female school in the magazine or cellar of the 
house in which they resided. The first day there were twenty 
pupils. Two months afterward, the number had increased to one 
hundred and sixty-seven. They were of all ages, from three to 
eighteen. Of the first ninety-six who entered the seminary, not 
more than six could read at all, and that only in a very stammering 
manner; and not more than ten or twelve who knew a letter. 
Every Sunday morning they were assembled to read and repeat 
from memory passages of the New Testament. Upon these portions 
of the Sacred Word they were afterward questioned, and explana- 
tions, with practical applications, were made by the Rey. Messrs. 
Robertson and Hill, alternately. The exercises began with a form 
of prayer pronounced by one of the children, and were closed by 
singing ahymn. <A school for boys was also commenced, under the 
Greek Priest Aggatangelos. For some time it was conducted in 
the church of which Aggatangelos was Pastor; but the Mission- 


- 1832, Report of the Board of Directors. 161 


aries having been so fortunate as to obtain possession of a large 

Turkish house which had been occupied by the Austrian Consul, 

at a rent of $120, transferred both the boys’ and girls’ schools 

thither. The boys’ school, soon after it was established, consisted 
of one hundred and ten pupils. 

* When our Missionaries left America, it was their intention to 
limit the instructions of their schools to the mere elements of human 
learning. They soon, however, found reason to change their opinion, 
and, as the cause of this variation in their sentiments, thus wrote to 
the Committee, under date of September 10, 1831: 


«<The great want of teachers throughout the country makes it appear an 
evident duty to prepare a portion of the pupils for this important vocation. 
Numbers of schools which existed two or three years since have fallen through, 
on account of the inadequacy of the teachers, and many others which yct 
exist are of very trifling benefit. Unless the teacher has his own mind some- 

what expanded, he almost immediately falls into the wretched method, so 
general during the Turkish sway, of teaching to read the words, without any 
idea of their-meaning. Another reason which actuates us is the desire to 
induce as many as possible of the children of those in better circumstances to 
receive their education in the country, and not go forth to acquire the infidel 
principles of Italy, France, and Germany. Many parents of respectability have 
conversed with us on the subject, and seem anxious that our institution should 
be on a more iiberal footing. These, with other minor considerations, have 
induced us to adopt a plan, of which the following is an outline: The whole 
boys’ school is divided into three departments. The lowest, and by far the 
most numerous, is placed under the charge of Basilius, the Lancasterian teacher, 
who will instruct them in reading, writing, arithmetic, and a little geography. 
These, as fast as they finish their course, will give way to other pupils, and 
thus a constant succession be kept up. From these, also, selections of the 
most promising will be made to attend the lessons of Stephanus, and obtain 
the elements of ancient Greek, and a still larger portion of arithmetic, geog- 
raphy, etc. There will be again selections made from the pupils of Stephanus, 
to be united with the children of those of higher standing, to pursue a limited 
course of classical reading, together with other branches, under the immediate 
tuition of Benthylos, who, under our direction, will have a general charge of 
the whole establishment. Benthylos and Stephanus will give lessons in arith- 
metic, grammar, and geography also occasionally in the girls’ department. Wo 
shall ourselves also take a part in the instructions, independently of that which 
is of a religious nature. We have seen so much of the advantage of a knowl. 
edge of English here, that one of us will give lessons toa limited class, threo 
or four times a week, Among other advantages likely to result from this plan 
is, that we shall probably, ere long, have a class of the clergy to go through a 
course of ancient Greek, by which they will be better qualificd to understand 
the Scriptures and the service of the Church. In due.season, it is also proposed 
to give lessons in Hebrew, and lectures on the evidences,of Christianity, and 


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162 Report of the Board of Directors. 1852. 


other topics connected with religion. We shall demand from those whose 
parents are able to pay, and who attend the highest department, a fixed sum 
for tuition, which will assist in defraying the expense of the teachers. We 
shall make arrangements for instruction in French and drawing, for such as are 
willing to pay the teachers extra for these branches. There are two German 
architects residing here, one of whom would give lessons in drawing if a class 
can be formed for the purpose. These things, without any extra expense to us, 
will give additional reputation to our establishment.’ 


‘While this plan was before the Executive Committee for their 
consideration, Mr. J. C. Richmond, of Providence, Rhode Island, 
who had recently returned from a tour through Greece, visited 
Philadelphia for the purpose of interesting its citizens in a similar 
institution, which he contemplated establishing in Athens, and col- 
lectirg funds to aid in the accomplishing of the undertaking. The 
Executive Committee, therefore, in the confident persuasion that 
Mr. R.’s efforts would be successful, adopted the following resolu- 
tion : 


“* Resolved, That the Secretary be requested to inform the Missionaries to 
the Greeks, that perceiving from their communication of the 10th of Septem- 
ber, that they have taken measures to extend their operations by the establish- 
ment of an institution for the purpose of conveying instruction in the higher 
branches of learning, thus involving the Society in considerable additional 
expense, which, in its present situation, is deemed inexpedient, it being entirely 
beyond our power to transmit the necessary funds for the erection of suitable 
buildings; that the Society will hold itself responsible for the salaries of 
teachers, and rent of school-houses already engaged and contracted for, until 
such time as the plan proposed by Mr. Richmond, and now in progress toward 
completion, shall go into operation, when all schools, except those for elemen- 
tary instruction, shall be transferred to the Society about to be formed, provided 
sufficient pledges shall be given that it shall be under Episcopal government, 
and conducted in Greece, under the exclusive control of the Missionaries of 
this Society ; and that, in such case, the Missionaries be authorized to give to the 
institution so established such a portion of their time and attention as shall, in 
their judgment, consist with their character as heralds of the Gospel of salva- 
tion.’ | 


About the same time, the following resolution was also adopted: 


“<Resolved, That such parts of the letter of the Greek Missionaries as relate 
to the erection of buildings be laid before the friends of the Mission, accom- 
panied, however, by a. statement on behalf of the Executive Committec, that 
while, under present circumstances, the Society would consider it inexpedient 
to expend its funds for such a purpose, they are willing to receive and appro- 
priate any.sums which the friends of the Greek cause may wish to contribute 
thereto.’ 


A 
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1882. Leeport of the Board of Directors. 163 


“Yn the autumn of 1831, the Missionarics being entirely out of 
funds, it became necessary, in their opinion, that one of them should 
‘visit Smyrna for the purpose of procuring, if it were possible, the 
means of relieving their own necessities and meeting the responsi- 
bilities which they had assumed on account of the Mission. 

“ Accordingly, on the 13th of September, Mr. Hill left Athens, 
and on the 21st of the same month landed at Smyrna, when, to his 
great disappointment, he found that a number of letters and pack- 
ages, among which were dispatches from the Society, had been 
forwarded but a few days before, by Mr. Van Lennep, to Athens. 
The following is an extract from a communication addressed by 
Mr. Hill to the Executive Committee, under date of October 6th, 
while he was at Smyrna: 


“«We have many things to cheer us, however, even in Athens. Though cut 
off entirely from society, our wives find their chief delight in the employ- 
ment of their school. The burden of it, as has been observed, has devolved, 
hitherto, without any other female assistance whatever, upon Mrs. Hill and 
Mrs. Robertson. The latter has now been obliged to retire altogether, and 
Mrs. Hill is alone surrounded by one hundred and fifty children; and girls of 
from twelve to cighteen years of age, who a few months ago were ignorant, 
rude, and squalid, are now decent, orderly, attentive, and rapidly improving in 
the various branches (of an elementary character) which are taught. Their 
gratitude is displayed in a thousand ways; their respect for their teacher most 
profound. Nota day passes that we do not receive presents and fruit from the 
poorest among them; and while they are contented to live upon three or four 
black olives and a crust of hard barley-bread for their dinner, they have 
frequently been known to bring their didaskalissa (teacher) a handful of eggs, 
or a plate of honey, or a chicken, which would have afforded themselves a 
magnificent repast, or purchased the means of enlarging their own scanty meal. 
From this poor and ignorant class, Mrs. H. has selected six girls as monitors, 
who have recommended themselves by their diligence and talents, and they 
have of late greatly relieved her from the immense burden. Mrs. Robertson 
has hitherto attended exclusively to the sewing department, and with admira- 
ble perseverance. Their progress here has been truly astonishing. We hope 
not long hence to forward to the United States some specimens of work from 
those who, two months since, could not use a needle. Their progress in learn- 
ing the Gospel is encouraging. Our exercises on the morning of the Lord’s 
day are interesting. Though we speak the language very imperfectly, we can 
make ourselves understood. One of the girls repeats a prayer (we have not 
deemed it expedient to conduct the religious exercises ourselves, lest it might 
be deemed an interference, or rather an intrusion. In this we have followed 
the advice of all the Missionaries in Greece, and their uniform example, and it 
accords with our.own opinion), then the Crced is recited ; sometimes, to vary the 
exercise, the Ten Commandments; then a chapter is read aloud by the girls, 


164 Report of the Board of Directors. 1832, 


from the Gospel in course. The lesson for the day is announced: it is always 
the portion appointed for the Gospel of the day in their own church. There are 
six girls at present who are far advanced enough to learn this by heart; these 
girls recite aloud this portion, after which it is carefully explained to them by ~ 
Brother Robertson and myself, who share this duty alternately. We close by 
singing a hymn, which I have taught them to the tune of Rousseaw’s Dream. 

“We have frequently had the room quite filled on such occasions. The 
parents of the children attend; and strangers, some from curiosity, perhaps, 
“to hear what these babblers will say ;” “other some” from a suspicion, un- 
doubtedly, that “we are setters forth of strange Gods.” Certainly it is our 
earnest desire and our determination, as far as in us lies, to “preach to them 
Jesus and the Resurrection.” ‘This occupies us from half past eight to ten A.M., 
at which hour our morning service commences at our own house.’ 


“ Shortly after Mr. Hill’s arrival at Smyrna, he was attacked with 
a severe illness, which detained him two weeks longer than it was 
his intention to have remained there. In the meantime the cholera 
made its appearance, of which hundreds died daily. This circum- 
stance, and especially the inconceivable dread which the people of 
the East entertain of this disease, rendered Mr. H.’s return home 
exceedingly difficult. After various unsuccessful efforts to obtain a 
passage, he (as a last expedient) hired a little catque, and, on the 
15th of October, ventured out to sea. After a very stormy passage, 
the vessel reached the Pireus on the 20th of the same month; but, 
contrary to Mr. Hill’s sanguine expectations, the most rigid precau- 
tionary measures had been adopted at Athens in reference to the 
pestilence which was raging in the Levant; and he was not allowed 
to land. Attempts were made by the friends of Mr. H. to obtain, 
in his behalf, a relaxation of the restrictions which had been deter- 
mined upon by the city authorities, but without success. After 
much debate upon the subject, the members of the Demogerentiz 
decided. unfavorably on Mr. Hill’s application to remain, and com- 
municated to him that it was necessary he should leave the harbor 
immediately. Previous to the receipt of this intelligence, it had 
been agreed upon between the Missionaries that, should Mr. Hill be 
compelled to return to Smyrna, his wife should accompany him. 
This step appeared to be necessary, as well on account of Mr. Hill’s 
situation, which required the attention of some careful friend, as im 
reference to the health and strength of Mrs. H., which had been 
greatly dmpaired by her unremitted devotion to the duties of the 
large school, the whole of which, for three months, had devolved 
upon her. 


_ 


1882. Report af the Board of Directors. 165 


“ On the 22d of October, Mrs. H. having joined her husband, they 
set sail for Smyrna, and having encountered many perils and priva- 
tions on the way, arrived there at midnight on the 2d of November. 

** On the 8th of the same month, Mr. Hill addressed a letter to the 
Committee, of which the following is a part : 


“« When I wrote to you by the Cherub, on the 6th of October, I gave you (in 
connection with our joint letter) a complete view of our labors and engage- 
ments up to the period of my leaving Athcns (the 12th of September). On my 
return to Attica (its shores I mean),I had an opportunity of conversing with 
Brother Robertson, and subsequently with Mrs. Hill, and I can therefore speak 
of the state of the establishment up to the 22d of October, the day Mrs. H. left 
Athens to join me. During my absence, the schools (viz., the girls’ school, 
under the direction of Mrs. Hill, and the three boys’ schools, under our general 
superintendence) and the operations of the press had been regular and uninter- 
rupted. 

«<The first (the girl’s school) has continued to present the same interesting 
appearance of order and beauty for which it has been noted by all who have 
had the pleasure of visiting it. Among our late visitors were Sir Robert Gor- 
don, the English Ambassador at Constantinople, and the officers of several 
English and Russian ships-of-war. During my absence we had a visit from the 
ex-Secretary Rigos, an estimable man, and well known in Europe and our own 
country as an accomplished scholar. He was greatly affected at the appearance 
of the female school, and after attentively surveying the scene for some 
moments, he turned to Mrs. H. and observed: “Lady, you are erecting in Athens 
a monument more enduring and more noble than yonder temple,’ pointing to the 
Parthenon. There are now on the register 187 names, all of whom are brought 
under the beneficial influence of instruction. The greatest number who attend 
at any one time has not, however, exceeded: 104. Many cannot attend regu- 
larly, but come when they can be spared from the toils of some laborious 
employment for their daily bread. On the very day that Mrs. H. left the 
school, she was to have placed a Testament in the hands of fifteen girls who 
had learned to read during the three months previous. When they joined the 
school, on the 18th of July, they knew not A from Z. The infant-school depart- 
ment (the first certainly that was ever established in Greece) is particularly 
interesting. The natural vivacity of the Greek character falls in admirably 
with the variety of the machinery of the infant-school system. Hence their 
progress is rapid and truly surprising. 

«<The boys’ schools remain as when I last wrote to you, containing 100 pupils. 
In the first are taught the elementary branches of learning, upon the mutual 
instruction plan. In the second and third departments, studies of a higher 
nature are attended to. While Mr. Benthylos has a general superintendence 
of the whole, he has the exclusive charge of the higher department. In all 
the schools the Gospel is a text-book, and in the upper schools the evidences of 
Christianity are taught. Two or three families from Tenos, formerly opulent 
and powerful, exiles from Constantinople, have lately removed to Athens, and 


166 Report of the Board of Directors. 1832. 


we have in our schools the sons of their families. It is evident that our estab- 
lishment is now firmly rooted. It has attracted much attention, and bids fair 
to be the most important aid that has yet been extended to this interesting and 
suffering people. There is certainly no school in Greece at all to be compared 
with it. The labors of those who have preceded us have been generally con- 
fined to the instruction of a handful of children in the alphabet, and a few 
who can read the Gospel. Female education, as we understand the phrase, and 
such as is suited to the wants and capacities of the rising generation of females 
in this country, has been before nearly wnknown. I speak advisedly and after 
some experience. I have seen the female schools around us—to that of Dr. 
Korck, in Syra, I give the meed of unqualified praise; his labors have been 
abundant, his own personal exertions truly surprising ; what has been accom- 
plished by him has been owing, however, to his unwearied attention to matters 
which belong properly to the department of a female. He could not find one 
properly qualified, and he undertook to supply the deficiency himself ; but this 
is an anomaly, and doubtless the same amount of improvement would have 
been visible in much less time had he been able to obtain an accomplished female 
teacher. With the exception of Dr. Korck’s school, all the other female schools 
are mere failures. And how is it possible that it can be otherwise? There are 
no females here sufficiently instructed to take charge of so important an office. 
We have been long endeavoring to get one, even sufficiently qualified to act as 
an under teacher, and we have only now been able to engage a little girl of 
thirteen years of age, whom Dr. Korck had expressly instructed with a view to 
her becoming a schoolmistress. In Athens the department of female education 
must necessarily be given up to our Mission, and it has been accordingly. But 
I scarcely know how we shall extend ourselves so as to embrace the wide field 
that is there open to us in this department. Unless we can procure female 
assistance, we must be content to remain as we now are, and yet much remains 
to be done. There is no better way of doing good here than by training up 
female teachers, for without native teachers it is morally impossible to extend 
the light of Christian education among the multitude of ignorant females 
throughout the land. <A pious, devoted, industrious, humble-minded, intelligent 
female assistant from our own country would be an invaluable treasure to our 
Mission, and would greatly relieve my wife from the present arduous duties, 
or rather would enable her to be more useful by a more desirable division of 
labor.’ 


“In another communication from Mr. Hill, dated Smyrna, Feb- 
ruary 9, 1832, he thus writes: 


“« Without a pious, devoted, and well-instructed female teacher, the great 
work of instructing females cannot be attempted; and where shall we look for 
such in this country? In vain. I have never in this country met with one 
female who possessed either of these requirements. We must (with the bless- 
ing of the Lord on our endeavors) create such, and that is our grand desire and 
our principal aim at present. Hence it is that no schools can compete with 
ours, for no teachers can be found for twenty years who will come to the work 
with the preparation of heart and mind, and the devotion of soul, which has 


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led our wives to sacrifice home, kindred, friends and Christian privileges, for 
the Gospel’s sake. The economy, too (which is certainly desirable), with which 
we conduct our female schools is to be noticed. Hitherto we have paid no 
veacher ; lately we have engaged a young girl from Mr. Hildner’s school, at 
Syra, to assist, but her wages will not exceed. $50 per annum, and we have 165 
scholars. The Gospel is explained not on Sundays only, but every day ; whole- 
some example is set before them of cleanliness and order ; discipline is admin- 
istered judiciously, and its end explained; in short, all the advantages of a 
good American school, with daily religious instruction superadded. We hope, 
by an early opportunity in the spring, to send you some specimens of useful 
work accomplished by poor girls who a few months ago had never had a needle 
in their hands. The preceding remarks will have prepared you for receiving 
our proposition to use your utmost endeavors to grant us every facility in your 
power to sustain and extend our present designs in regard to female education 
in Athens. Mrs. Hill has, as you well know, devoted herself to this work, and 
it is her unceasing desire to be useful to this interesting portion of our popula- 
tion. Allow me to add that she seems peculiarly qualified for it, and, from her 


_ having few domestic engagements, can with more ease devote her whole atten- 


tion to these duties. As yet no one has done anything for female education in 
Greece but Dr. Korck. Much money has been contributed for the purpose, and 
many appeals have been made in behalf of such schools, but they have all 
been in vain. Thre is no school for females, I again repeat, in all Grecce, but 
that at Syra, and ours in Athens. The former has raiscd up some valuable 
teachers, and it is ably supported. The latter is still in its infancy; indeed, 
searecly more than commenced, and it remains to be scen how it will be sup- 
ported by Episcopalians. The only hope for poor, bleeding Greece is in the 
religious education of her youth; and if we can extend these blessings to the 
female youth of Greece, we shall operate with a redoubled influence. Already 
we have seen the kindly effects of good order, discipline, and education upon 


the mind and habits of many of our girls; and several who came into the 


school in July, rude and illiterate and dirty, are now patterns of good order and 
decency, and are placcd as monitresses over small classes. In a letter which 
Mrs. Hil! has just written to a friend in Virginia, and which she has left with 
me to forward, I find the following, which I take the liberty of sending you, 
as it relates to this subject: “There arc among the families who have returned 
to Athens many who have once enjoyed all that affluence could give, who now 
have for a habitation the most wrctched hovel, and scarcely clothes to cover 
them; most of them are widows, whose husbands have been killed, and who 
have no means of subsistence but in engaging in labors which are only fitted 
for beasts of burden. Ihave seen many a woman carry a load of wheat or barley 
which we would think too much for the back of a horse. We have two inter- 
esting girls in our school, of respectable parentage, who lost their father in the 
war; they are exceedingly poor; their mother was frequently urged to send 
them out into the field to work, that they might gain a few paras for their 
subsistence, but she could not be persuaded to expose her children to such 
hardships. When our school was opened, she sent them to us. Their correct ~ 
deportment, with their poverty and cleanliness of exterior, soon attracted our 


168 Report of the Board of Directors. 1882, 


attention. On visiting the family, we were much interested in them, and the 
mother modestly requested us to instruct her daughters in all wseful knowl- 
edge, so that they might be enabled in some way to procure a livelihood. The 
eldest we are preparing for an assistant teacher, and, were I so situated, I should 
like to take her into my family.” Mrs, Hill then adds: “We are extremely 
anxious to have an extensive establishment for female education at Athens, one that 
should embrace all classes. As yet our labors have been principally among the 
poor, and in Greece this will for a long time constitute the greater part of the 
community. Yet we have among us some interesting girls whom it would be 
very desirable to bring under our influence. They have enjoyed the advantages 
of more refined society in Europe, their families having removed, some to Italy, 
others to France, Austria, etc., during the revolution. These persons are now 
returning, and could we offer inducements in our schools, these parents might 
and would send their children, and in this way might we counteract the evils 
of infidelity, to which the more enlightened part of the Greeks are sadly prone. 
The daughters of these families receive a very superficial education, which 
consists of accomplishments (falsely so called) only ; of the improvement of the 
heart they are as ignorant as their poor countrywomen, who have remained at 
home and suffered with their suffering country. I have thought much since I 
have been in Greece of borrowing a hint from the Catholics in our country in 
their zealous efforts to accomplish their plans, especially in the establishment 
of boarding schools. The situation of my family is such €hat I could very 
well give myself to the work, and had I not been hedged in on every side by 
my residence in a little twelve-feet-square old tower, I think I should have 
made a beginning. The plan I would propose is this: to have a house suffi- 
ciently large to contain from six to twelve young females; these would form 
my family ; they would be selected from those who, from our personal knowl!- 
edge, we should think would make good teachers (and our first efforts must have 
this end principally in view). Besides all necessary and usual studies, they 
would be taught what no one here knows anything about, a proper value of 
time. Reading and instruction in the Holy Scriptures would be part of our 
daily occupations, and we would strive by precept and example to lead them to 
a true knowledge of the requirements of the Gospel. This would be, of course, 
for the decent poor ; afterward we might be able to draw under our roof the 
children of some who might be willing to contribute to their support,and some 
would probably come from distant places, as in days of old, attracted by the 
lustre of the name of Athens. And thus might we, in process of time, have 
an establishment where hundreds of children would be educated wpon Gospel 
principles. Could you not lend your aid to enable us to bring about something 
of this kind? It may be years before we can have such an establishment as 
will meet all the wants of the females of this country ; but I think it would be 
advisable to turn our attention at the commencement of our labors to all the 
various means of doing good that may suggest themselves to our mind. Those 
females of the lower classes of society (by far the larger part) who will be 
obliged to get their livelihood by the work of their own hands, are taught (along 
with reading, writing, and arithmetic) plain sewing and knitting, and we 
encourage them tobe industrious by giving them a compensation for their 


1882. Report of the Board of Directors. 169 


work. Some have supplied themselves already with shoes by their own work. 
ITassure you that the labors of three months have given me great reason to 
hope that our coming here has not been in vain. What I have to beg of you is, 
to do all you can in Virginia to assist us in maintaining good female schools in 
Greece, upon the same plans as the best at home. Believe me you cannot profit 
this people in any better way, and to this work I desire and design to devote 
the rest of my days, praying the Lord to enable me to discharge my duty with 
a single eye to His glory. I have in the school fifty infants from the age of 
two to eight years. To these I have already begun to talk, in their own tonguc, 
of sin, of Christ our Saviour, of death and eternity. Fifteen larger girls have 
been taught to read the Gospel, who never received instruction from any but 
me. I beseech you to pray earnestly that all who are taught to read the letter 
in these our schools may by the Spirit receive into their hearts its blessed 
truths, and be made wise unto salvation. I rejoice that I am now ready to 
return to these interesting duties. There are here (in Smyrna) many comforts 
of which we are entirely deprived in Greece, but I sigh for the ruins of Athens, 
and long again to be engaged in the labors of my school: We commend our- 
selves and those labors to your continued prayers and those of the Churches in 
your neighborhood.” ’ 


v Shortly after the receipt of this letter the following resolutions 
were adopted by the Executive Committee: 


«« Resolved, That the Executive Committee are impressed with the necessity 
of furnishing an assistant teacher to Mrs. Hill, and will take such steps as are 
necessary to accomplish that desirable purpose ; in the meanwhile, if Mrs. Hill 
should meet with a suitable assistant in Greece, the employment of such an 
one in our Mission establishment would meet the sanction of the Committee, 
and would be provided for by its funds. 

“« Resolved, That the Executive Committee extremely regret that their Mis- 
sionaries should have been exposed to any inconvenience and disappointment 
in relation to their financial arrangements, and that, while care has been taken 
hitherto to remit the required funds seasonably and safely, the Committee will 
give the subject a mature consideration, and will most gladly adopt any mode 
which may give the best promise of regularity and safety in the transmission 
of funds. Such a mode, it is expected, will be pointed out by the sub-com- 
mittee, to whom the subject has been committed. The Committee further 
think that the circumstances of the case fully justified Mr. Hill in going to 
Smyrna, and that, in all that he has done in relation to funds, he has acted 
judiciously. 

“<« Resolved, That the Executive Committee are happy to express their satis- 
faction with the operations of their Missionaries, and their hearty concurrence 
in their views in'relation to the establishment of elementary schools in Greece. 
Believing that the education of the children of Greece in the principles of 
useful knowledge and Gospel morality will prove the most efficient instrument 
for the advancement of the views of the Committee, they feel deeply interested 
in the promotion of every plan that may accomplish that end,and will endeavor 


170 Report of the Board of Directors. 1852, 


to furnish the funds that may be necessary for any desirable enlargement of 
this important department of the Mission; in relation to which it is especially 
hoped that the friends of this noble cause will furnish us with the means of 
procuring suitable accommodations for our schools, and cvery other facility 
necessary to their permanent and extensive success. The Committee are the 
more interested in this matter from the circumstance that Providence seems to 
indicate their duty in the admirable qualifications for, and in the devoted and 
beneficial labors in, this most important work, which. distinguish the wives of 
our Missionaries; deeming, as they do, the employment of competent female 
instrumentality of indispensable utility in the present degraded state of Greece. 

“Resolved, That the Committee feel an undiminished interest in the Mission 
to the Greeks, and heartily unite in the prayers of their Missionaries for success 


to the plans of the Society for the advancement of the Redeemer’s cause;. 


assuring them of the affectionate sympathy with which they are cherished, and 
of the ardent supplications of the Committee for their personal welfare, and 
for the Divine blessing on their valuable labors, 

“ «Resolved, That the Treasurer be requested to forward to the Rev. Messrs. 
Robertson and Hill whatever funds in his hands may have been contributed for 
the purpose of Mission buildings in Greece, to be by them appropriated accord- 
ing to the design of the donors, at their discretion. 

“Resolved, That whatever sums may have been advanced by the Mission- 
aries for the objects of the Mission, upon their own responsibility, be refunded 
to them, and that the Treasurer is hereby authorized to remit the amount 
thereof to the Missionaries by the earliest opportunity.’ 


“By a letter from the Rev. Mr. Robertson, dated Athens, Feb- 
ruary 14, 1832, we learn that, upon the cessation of the cholera at 
Smyrna, Mrs. Hill’s anxiety to renew the girls’ school (necessarily, 
in a great measure, suspended in her absence) induced her to 
risk the perils of a winter’s voyage in a small vessel, with no other 
guardian than a small lad of fourteen. Mr. Robertson gives as the 
reason of Mr. Hill’s remaining behind, that they were destitute of 
funds and very considerably in debt, and that it was too painful 
again to borrow, while there was a shadow of soon receiving aid 
from home. Mr. Hill, therefore, continued at Smyrna to await the 
arrival of two vessels of whose sailing he had obtained informa- 
tion. After noticing the safe arrival of Mrs. Hill at Athens on the 
Ist of January, Mr. Robertson then says: 


“<«T had already made arrangements to resign the house which we occupied 
for schools, at the close of the term for which it was engaged, being wholly un- 
able to pay the rent. This took place on the 15th of January, at which time 
also we dismissed two of the teachers, Benthylos and Basilius, the highest and 
lowest. I now engaged a small room for the boys’ school at $2 per month, 
without fireplace, or glass in the windows, everywhere abounding in air-holes, 


ba 


1832, Leeport of the Board of Directors. 11 


and altogether most uncomfortable for the winter season, Another, somewhat 
better, at $2.50 per month, I procured for sister Hill, that she might resume 
the girls’ school. Both rooms are filled—there being about seventy-five boys 
and sixty girls, so that more than half our pupils are of necessity abandoned, 
notwithstanding the most urgent entreaties of their parents. By holding out 
from time to time the expectation (which we sincerely entertained), that brother 
Hill would arrive with money in a few days, I have hitherto kept our creditors 
aloof, though I feel quite ashamed when I look them in the face. Alas! now 
I knownot what tosay. A letter, received a few days since from brother Hill, 
under date of January 18th, informs us that he had received bills for my salary, 
and a part of Mr. Bingham’s, and stating that he cannot at present send us any 
more. What are we todo? This will scarcely more than relieve us from the 
burden of our present debts, and how weare to support our families, or continue 
our operations, we cannot conceive. Brother Hill proposed to await the arrival 
of one or two other vessels, and if then we should receive no further supplies, 
to borrow, if possible, a considerable sum in the name of the Society. With 
this we shall continue our labors, on the humblest scale, until we receive 
the decision of the Committee in regard to our Mission. We cannot, will not 
believe that the important station which we hold is to be abandoned, until we 
read the official document which recalls us home, and then, with deep grief and 
humiliation, we shall turn our backs upon poor, distracted, suffering Greece. 
And can it be that our Mission is thus to terminate? Can it be that there is 
not “hristian liberality enough in our Church to sustain one foreign Mission ? 
Have her members lost all sympathy for this desolate and degraded portion of 
the flock of Christ? When even our wives prefer to remain as exiles ina 
foreiga land, for the love of Christ, and the good of souls—with civil war 
raging around them—with pestilence often threatening its approach—with 
privation of many of the comforts and most of the refinements of life—are 
there not enough pious and benevolent iudividuals within the wide-spread 
bounds of our beloved Church to supply them with bread, and the means of 
usefulness ? 

“Greece, it is true, through foreign political intrigue, is in a most wretched 
state. When the great powers will agree in some arrangement which will 
restore tranquillity, is exceedingly uncertain. But in the meantime, we meet 
no hindrance in our work, but what arises from want of means. We have 
heard the sound of the cannon of the hostile parties, and we have not trembled, 
feeling that God was with us. Even now the civil war is hardly twenty 
miles removed from us: nay, a slight skirmish has taken place in the 
mouth of the Pireus. Yet for these things our hearts do not fail us. 
We came not hero with the idea that no trials were to be faced, and blessed be 
God! we have had strength given to us equal to our day. Nor have we been 
wholly without encouragements from abroad. Various strangers, who have 
been here, have been pleased to express an interest in our operations, and 
from some we hope to derive some aid. The celebrated Professor Thiersch, of 
Munich, whose name stands among those of the first Greek scholars in Europe, 
has visited our schools, and addressed them in their native tongue. He_ has 
taken with him specimens of our press, and encouraged the hope of a partial sup- 


172 Report of the Board of Directors. pte: 


ply of elementary classics. I learned yesterday that he will be here again in a 
few days, previously to taking leave of Greece, and I feel mortified to think of 
our diminished numbers and reduced scale of operations. Since the Professor’s 
departure, we have been favored with the company of M. Wagner, Privy 
Counsellor of the King of Saxony. He has made me promise to write to him 
in Dresden, in what way the friends of Greece there can help our schools. A 
pious young Irishman, a candidate for orders in the Church, who has just 
returned from his travels in the Hast,and who attended our services on Sunday 
last, will, I trust, carry a good report of what we are doing to his native land, 
though he beholds us in our humiliation. A letter has been received, also, 
from the Secretary of the American Tract Society, begging to know in what 
way they can aid us in the publication of translations of Tracts, either from 
their list, or such as shall be approved of by their Committee. This was quite a 
cheering communication to us, for we have nearly reached the last ream of our 
paper. 

«“<«Time will not allow me to enlarge at present upon the prospects of use- 
fulness which lie before us, if we have only means to carry them into effect. 
The Committee, however, ought to be well aware of what is requisite to enable 
us to continue our office with success. The annual expenditures of the 
Mission cannot, I think (including our salaries) be fixed at less than $4,000 per 
annum, and the probability is, that for a few years it will lie between that and 
$5,000. In addition to this we ought to have means to erect two small dweli- 
ing-houses, two large school-houses, and a printing-office. The moment affairs 
are arranged, and a regular government established, rents will rise rapidly. 
The Committee are aware that, before I returned from my first visit to Greece, 
I wrote them that it would be necessary to build. Three thousand dollars 
will suffice for houses, and probably less than that for the other buildings. 
The statements of an individual, who had been imprudent, sometime since, led 
us to fear that the expenses of building would be greater than we had sup- 
posed. But, on further inquiry, I am convinced that our original estimates 
were correct. Let not the Committee fear that we shail be imprudent in build- 
ing in troublous times. We shall not venture to erect any building until we 
have good reasons to believe that we are secure in doing so. Butit is important 
that we be prepared to begin as soon as we have sure tidings of the formation 
of the new government. Ina few months after this, the influx of population 
will raise exceedingly the price of labor, and perhaps of materials. 

“« One mistake we have made in regard to our schools is the requiring of pay 
from any class of the community. The fact is that very few, even of those 
who hold property, have money at command, and many of the most respectable 
families are in astate‘of deep poverty. It is most humbling to these to ask a 
charity of us, and yet such has been the case, and sometimes under circum- 
stances which made us feel a strong regret that our schools have not been 
thrown open for the gratuitous instruction of all who would come.” 


‘‘ Previous to the receipt of this communication, another had come 
to hand from Mr. Hill, dated Smyrna, February 9, 1832, in which 
he acknowledges the arrival of further dispatches from the Society, 


1892. Report of the Board of Directors. 173 


and announces his intention of sailing for Athens on the ensuing 
day. On the 25th of February, Mr. Hill reached Athens, and on 
the 19th of the next month, addressed the following lines to the 
Executive Committee: 


“On my return, I found, through the goodness.of the Lord, that all the 
members of the Mission were well. Mrs. Hill had been two months at home 
since her departure from Smyrna, and had reorganized her female school. I 
could not but weep, however, on the altered state of our former beautiful 
establishment. It appears that brother Robertson, having become excessively 
alarmed by the reports from home of the state of the Society’s finances, and fear- 
ing that from want of funds we should not be able to meet our present engage- 
ments, resolved to dismiss two of our teachers (in the male department), and to 
put the school establishment upon the most reduced scale possible. It is true 
we had been obliged, by the return of the proprietor of the large house in 
which our schools were taught, to quit that place, where they were so well 
accommodated, and so were compelled to seek other quarters forthem. Now I 
found them situated in different, and very distant parts of the city, each in an 
obscure and small apartment, incapable of holding even the small number 
whom they had thought it advisable to collect together during this uncertain 
state of our concerns. It was very evident that in their present miserable 
rooms, the schools could never increase, nor could the children who attended be 
taught to advantage. The great contrast, too, which our present impoverished 
state exhibited, had a visible effect upon the people here; it made a bad 
impression. _ We were losing our influence, which is only so far valuable as it 
enables us to do good more extensively. It was painful to see the toil and 
anxiety of so many days and nights as had been devoted to the establishment 
of these schools, particularly of the female school, now almost wholly lost. 
Mrs. Hill was obliged to leave her home very early in the morning, and in all 
weathers, during the inclemency of the winter (which here is, I assure you, 
most inclement for two months), to pick her way alone, over paths of stones, 
and rubbish, and mud, for upward of half a mile, and teach her children ina 
crowded little apartment (even when all her Infant-school children were out 
doors in the yard, exposed to the weather and the sun). This very day, I saw 
them all seated or standing in this situation, exposed to the rays of the sun 
upon their uncovered heads, without the least shade, when I found it uncom- 
fortable, remaining covered, even half an hour. I could not consent that our 
schools shouid any longer remain in this condition, nor that the labors of the 
teachers should be spent in vain. As by a mutual agreement between brother 
Robertson and myself, for the better prosecution of our Missionary work, a 
division of iabor had been adopted, and the school department fell to my share, 
and the printing department to brother R.,-I immediately took measures for 
placing our schools upon a more advantageous and becoming footing; at the 
same time, taking into view the depressed state of the Society’s finances, and 
that we had received no very encouraging accounts from you, I resolved, after 
consultation with brother Robertson, not to increase the present expenditures 
of the school department. It was desirable, on many accounts, that the schools 


17s Report of the Board of Directors. 1892. 


should be under our own roof, and they would then be under our continual 
inspection; they would be more like a Missionary establishment, and as it 
respects our domestic arrangements, would be far preferable in every view. 
Having found a house lately repaired, and suitable to my purpose, I hired it at 
as low a rate as I possibly could, on my own account, with the understand- 
ing that all our schools are to be placed there, and that the Society 
shall be at no greater expense for house rent of families and schools than they 
now are, or have been, while at the same time owr schools, and my own family 
too, are infinitely better accommodated than they have ever been ; indeed, the 
house is admirably adapted to the purpose for which I designed it, a Jfission- 
ary Establishment. ‘Ve appropriate exactly one half the house to the male and 
female schools: the boys’ school is entirely separate from the girls, and the 
entrance is from different quarters. We can accommodate about 100 or 150 
boys—150 girls, besides an Infant school of 60; and I feel very confident we 
shall, in a few weeks, have this number in our schools. By this arran gement 
the Society now pay the rent of a house for brother Robertson's family only. 
My own I will pay myself: and I hope, by dint of management and economy, 
to be able to do it at least for onc year, or if I should come short, I shall depend 
upon private friends to make up the deficiency. In the present reduced state 
of the Society’s funds, I feel desirous of contributing all I can to their relief. 
I have had an opportunity of knowing, by the experience of last year, upon 
what sum I can live; and although we lived as economically as it was possible, 
Ihave only $20 over. Our expenses this year must consequently be reduced 
one third to enable me to meet my rent. This calculation is founded upon the 
supposition that brother Robertson retains the house he now occupies, at the 
same rent, say $275. I presume, if he removes to another at a lower rate, or 
gets a reduction on this, the Society are still willing to allow the same sum for 
house rent. As the matter now stands, the expense of house-rent is, 


For the families... co. aes. Vale do tenees siete os car $275 00 
« BCHOGIB.:. eye's Vip s bere oa Wile ed see ak ee 60 00 

“ PIERS. eeu eee ELCs Cosy wieelu an ay ee een 48 00 
$383 00 


««N. B. Before we broke up and removed to the cabins we now occupy, we 
paid $120 for the school-rent. 


I have taken’ a house at the rent.of.c). Zs.2iasvwees eee ee $300 00 
Proposed rent of the schools to be deducted...........2..000. 80 00 

the stim :Ofs i... 5.6. s 5 os hs ee $220 00 

out of my own salary, and then the rents will stand the Society as follows: 

House-rent of Mr. Robertson's family. , (32... . ee $275 00 

2 SCLOOB ..., .0s 0 oud 6 + Sm ue ean ety eee 80 00 

i“ PROBS es ences ee dts el epee Lipee ea een 48 00 

POCA GA iin din ter ad. or A Ae ih ie ee . $403 00 


An increase of only $20 per annum, though the schools will contain more than 
twice the number, with every convenience. But if brother Robertson is able 


1882, Report of the Board of Directors. 175 


to get a diminution of his rent, or could accommodate the press in his house, I 
eonceive the Society would be willing to allow the aggregate sum for house- 
rent, say $275, and my donation to the Society will be diminished in a corre- 
sponding ratio. This I hope he will be able to effect, though proper houses are 
very few in number, and the rents are very high. I would not take $50 
for the contract I have made, for it happened very favorably indeed for me, 


_that the papers were executed only the very day before, or upon the very day 


the news reached us of the settlement of the affairs of Greece, and the 
appointment of a Prince. Immediately everything took a start. Owners of 
houses would not even talk of letting them, for it is very certain that there 
will now be a great influx of strangers from the different islands and the conti- 
nent ; and it is well known that Athens is to be the future residence of the 
Prince. Another reason for my wishing to have just such a house as I have 
taken is, that we can now commence our favorite plan of receiving two or 
three young girls under our own roof, to be educated by Mrs. Hill as future 
teachers. This plan has already been fully made known to you in our com- 
munications from Smyrna, and we have already begun it. We have nowa 
fine little girl, whom we have known and noticed for eight months, as an 
intelligent, industrious, and amiable girl. She is the daughter of a poor widow, 
born in affluence, but reduced to the extremest poverty by the fluctuation of the 
revolution. Her father and eldest brother were killed during the war. Her 
history, however, has nothing in it uncommon; it is that of hundreds around 
us; but few among them possess the mind or sweetness of our young protegé; 
itis from the ranks of such, that we intend to select proper subjects to make 
good teachers, in the most approved sense of the word. In no way can we 
benefit this people more effectually: the harvest is great, the laborers are 
few ; none, we might almost say, for where, in Greece, shall we find an enlight- 
ened, pious, female teacher? “ No where,’ I can confidently answer. 

“« One remark I forgot to make in its proper place: we pay now for one sole 
male teacher (a most excellent and well instructed young man, by the name of 
Stephanos), $15 per month, and to our sole assistant teacher in the female 
school (Mrs, Hill being the only teacher and superintendent), $3 per month, her 
board we give her in our own family. Thus we pay now only $18 per month 
for teaching ; formerly we paid $48. 

“The only increase in the expenses of the schools which I propose during 
the coming year (and this not unless the ascertained state of your funds will 
permit it), will be the establishment of a school for boys, upon the mutual 
instruction plan. Our present boys’ school is an Hellenic school. The Old and 
New Testaments in Ancient Greek are text books, and the class which studies 
them is under my sole direction and instruction. We have a strange medley 
in our schools. In the girls’ school they are, almost without exception, poor, 
though of very different grades of respectability. Among the boys, we have the 
peasant lad, whose brown visage, rough capote and sandals of raw-hide, 
sufficiently indicate his low estate; and along-side of him, the sons of the 
accomplished scholar and upright statesman, Jakovaky Rizor, and others of 
inferior note, all sitting with perfect equality, and reciting from the same 
form.’ 


176 Report of the Board of Dvrectors. 1892. 


“This letter having been read at a meeting of the Executive 
Committee, held August 8th, the Committee adopted a resolution 
authorizing the Treasurer of the Society to pay Mr. Hill $100 per 
annum for the use of the rooms in his house occupied by the 
schools. . 

“The following extract of a letter from Mrs. Hill, dated Athens, 
March 1, 1832, to the managers of one of the Associations auxiliary 
to this Society, exhibits the order of the exercises in her school: _ 


“*T have at this time under my daily care sixty girls, not having the means 
to procure a place large enough to receive more. Of these, the greater part 
can now read, having all been taught in our school since its commencement. 
That you may judge whether we are or are not engaged in a work proper for 
Missionaries, I will give you a succinct account of the order of the exercises. 
The school is opened at 9 A.M. with prayer, always concluding with the Lord’s 
Prayer, the whole school repeating it aloud. <A portion of Scripture is then 
read (a ‘selection from the Psalms, from the new Greek translation, just pub- 
lished at Corfu, under the direction of the British and Foreign Bible Society). 
A chapter is then read by the girls in a class (taken from the New Testament), 
after which they employ themselves in studying the portion they have to repeat 
from memory, before the close of the day. One hour is appropriated to writing, 
and even then, “copies” are sentences from the Gospel. Twice a week they 
are instructed in geography, and they begin to understand the elementary 
part well. The exercises are suspended for an hour at noon. The children, 
however, all bring their bread (with the addition, sometimes, of a few black — 
olives, or a bit of vile cheese) and they are arrayed in order in the court-yard ; 
before they eat, a blessing is asked (this has been observed invariably from the 
first day we opened our school). The afternoon is devoted to spelling and arith- 
metic, and at the close of the exercises of the day we all solemnly recite the arti- 
cles of our common faith, as contained in the Nicene Creed. Two mornings in 
the week are devoted to plain sewing, and it is impossible to express the grati- 
tude of those poor girls for the benevolence which has placed them in a situa- © 
tion to be useful to themselves and families. The younger part are taught as 
in America, upon the [nfant-school plan. With Alpha, they learn, for instance, 
who Adam was; and only this day I was occupied some time in explaining to 
these infants the nature of sin. AsI felt the importance of the truths I was 
endeavoring, inso much feebleness, to instil into their young and pliant minds, 
I could with difficulty refrain myself—my soul yearned after them in all the 
fervency of Gospel love. Dr, Watts’s “‘ Hymns for Infant Minds,” have been 
translated into Greek verse, and the repeating of them is part of their daily 
exercises. The amusing rhymes which have often brought alternate smiles 
and tears to many a delighted auditor in our Infant schools at home, are now 
repeated with equally as much gice by the half-naked little nurslings of poor 
afflicted Greece. (We are indebted to a kind friend for a pretty good imitation 
of several Infant-school hymns, which we have had printed at our press.) On 
Bride «tton--on whan the exercises of the week close (for I mnct racorva 


>) eet a a ae ar, a 
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1882. Leeport of the Board of Directors. is i, 


one day for the arrangement of my family affairs), all the Scripture which has 
been committed to memory during the week is recited, together with the Creed 
and Ten Commandments, and such other simple religious instruction as we 
can give ; the good are rewarded, and we part to meet again on Sunday morn- 
ing, when the portion of Scripture which has been selected as the Lesson for 
the week is amply explained by the brethren alternately, with other religious 
exercises,’ 


“ At a meeting of the Executive Committee, held on the 3d of 
October, 1832, Miss Elizabeth Mulligan (sister of Mrs. Hill) was by 
resolution connected with the Greek Mission in the capacity of 
assistant teacher. On the 30th of the same month, Miss M. sailed 
from Boston in the brig Garnet, bound to Malta and Smyrna. 


“PRESS DEPARTMENT. 


“Tn a joint letter addressed by the Missionaries to the Executive 
Committee, dated Athens, May 7, 1831, they give the following 
in relation to the printing operations of the Mission: 


“< As our presses did not arrive until the 23d of March, we of course have 
only entered upon the work of printing. The whole establishment arrived in 
good order, butsome trifling mistakes were to be corrected. For instance, the 
cases for the type were prepared for English, instead of Greek letter. By 
accounts from Tenos, which we received yesterday, Mr. Bingham is just putting 
to press our first tract. It consists of two extracts from a little Greek volume 
of devotions and meditations. One is on the observation of the Lord’s Day and 
Festivals ; and the other on Prayer. They are simple, and level to the lowest 
understanding, and the matter is very pious and useful. One of our Greek 
friends is translating for us, in token of friendship, “ Conversations with a young 
Traveller,” a tract much needed for the better educated youth of the country. 
We have made some collections, chiefly at second-hand, from the Fathers, on the 
importance of Scripture to the people, and their rank and value as the founda- 
tion of all religious truth. But unless we are supplied with copies of the lead- 
ing Greek Fathers, we shall in this department be able to effect little. Brother 
Robertson owns the Greek Eccles. Historians—Eusebius’s “ Denon” and “ Pre- 
par. Evangelica’’—Isidore of Pelusium and Gregory Thaumaturgus. But we 
need also the Apostolic Fathers, Cyril, Basil, Chrysostom, Clemens of Alexandria, 
Theodoret, and one or two others in the original. Cave’s “ Lives of the Fathers,” 
Bingham’s “ Eccles. Antiquities,’ and Renaudot’s “ History of Liturgies,” would 
also be of great use to us. We know that the Society cannot use the liberality in 
this respect of some other institutions, and we are anxious not to increase its 
expenses; but if due notice were given, are there not brother clergymen (or 
perhaps even pious laymen) who might individually spare one or other of these 
works from their libraries, for the sake of the cause? They might remain the 
property of the Society, and only be in our trust for the benefit of the Mission.’ 

12 


178: * Report of the Board of Directors. ee 


“On the 10th of September, of the same year, they thus write : 


“* Besides two tracts which were published during our stay in Tenos, we have 
_ printed since we have been here a translation of “Conversations between two 
friends ;” a portion of “ Colburn’s Arithmetic” (an 18mo. vol. of about 150 pages), — 
and a considerable portion of “Jacob’s Greek Reader,’ without the notes and 
vocabulary. The almost utter destitution of school-books in the land has 
placed us under the imperious necessity of peparing a series for our schools, 
even if we had no regard for others. For several months, therefore, the presses 
will be wholly occupied with these. The next work we shall take up will be 
“Goodrich’s Geography,’ somewhat modified (the account of the American 
States abridged, and that of Greece enlarged). One of the other American 
books on this subject might perhaps have been adopted, but we have not the 
necessary maps to put into the hands of each scholar for their illustration. If 
some friend or friends would devote a small sum, by which we might procure 
half a dozen engraved plates, with the names in Greek character, from France 
or Italy, they would do great service to the cause. We have also a “ Modern 
Greek Grammar” prepared for the press. "We shall soon prepare a translation 
of an admirable 12mo volume, on the “Greek Primitives,’ from a late German 
work. This will supply the need, for a time, of a regular lexicon, which 
would be too heavy for us to undertake. Until the last month, we have 
employed but three hands in the office ;—Peter, who was with brother Robert- 
son in America, and is known to some members of the Committee; George, 
who was in brother Hill’s employ, and who served for three years on board an 
American man-of-war, and who speaks English very well, and a small boy. 
Peter and George have much seriousness of deportment. They attend regu- 
larly morning and afterncon, the church in our house on the Lord’s day, and as 
they understand the language, are in the way of having their good impressions 
confirmed and increased. We have full confidence in their honesty and 
faithfulness, At present they receive only six dollars sixty-six cents per 
month; but it is insufficient for their maintenance, and we have hitherto 
supplied the deficiency ourselves. They do not complain, but we deem it but 
just that their wages should ere long be increased. The little boy lives with 
his mother, and receives two dollars per month.’ 


“Under date of November 8, 1831, they say. 


«The operations of the press have hitherto proceeded to our satisfaction. 
By the Cherub, in October, I sent you, via Boston, copies of our publications, viz., 
“On the due observance of the Lord’s day.” “ Conversation in a Stage-coach,’— 
printed in Tenos; “Dialogue between two Friends ;” “Colburn’s Arithmetic 
for the use of Schools,’—printed in Athens, 

“«Since which we have commenced publishing (for the use of our own 
schools, and with the expectation of being able to supply others) judicious 
extracts from “Jacob’s Greek Reader,” omitting the notes. I am happy to say 
that all the boys in our school are now supplied with a copy of these two 
useful publications; the extracts from Jacob’s go as far as the Mythological 
part, not inclusive.’ 


1882. Leeport of the Board of Directors. . 179 


“In Mr. Hill’s communication of February 9, 1832, he gives 
the following extract from a letter written to him by the Rey. Mr. 
Goodell at Constantinople: ‘Thanks for the specimen you sent me 
of your press. They do you great credit, and our schoolmasters 
speak in flattering terms of the style. When our schools have 
advanced a little, your Greek Arithmetic will, I am confident, be in 
demand here. May you and your works, like the Star of Bethlehem, 
guide every inquiring soul to salvation.’ 

“Mr. Hill also furnishes the following lines from a letter ad- 
dressed to him by the Rev. Mr. Temple at Malta: ‘Iam truly glad 
to find that you have undertaken “ Olney’s Geography ” and “ Col- 
burn’s Arithmetic.” They cannot fail to be useful in Greece.’ 

“Under date of February 14th, we have the following: 


“«Since we have been in Athens, we have published large editions of the 
“Dialogue between Two Friends ” (dedicated to the Bishop of Talanti); one 
hundred ‘and twenty pages of “Colburn’s Arithmetic” (suspended for want of 
type for fractions), ninety-six pages of a ‘“ Modern Greek Grammar” (nearly 
finished), the “ First Book for Classical Reading in our Schools, being cighty 
pages of Jacob’s Greek Reader,” and of seventy-two pages of the second part of 
the same. These books are absolutely necessary for our own and other schools 
—the publication of them gives popularity to our press, and we have reason to 
believe that our sales will be considerable. We desire, as soon as possible, to 
begin a small Geography. As soon as we have printed the most. necessary 
school-books, we wish to devote the press almost entirely to religious publi- 
cations. An edition of the Apostolic Fathers, 1am persuaded, would be very 
useful, especially for the Clergy. It would form but a small volume, cven 
with the ancient and modern Greek in opposite columns, and with the addition 
of a preface and a few notes. They could not help perceiving how entirely 
divested these important productions are of all reference to the superstitions 
with which their Church is encumbered, and which were the contrivances of a 
later age. 

“« With regard to religious tracts, we shall be able to sell, at least. for some 
years to come, very few; but of our school-books, we hope to dispose of a much 
largernumber. Yet evenof these, the larger proportion must probably be freely 
given at present. Weare anxious,as soon as possible, to publish not only some 
practical tracts for general circulation, but also some works which will be of 
value to the clergy. ‘The Conversation between Two Friends,’ we have dedi- 
cated to the Bishop of Talanti, the most influential member of the Episcopal 
body. In due season we shall pay a similar compliment to others, which 
we trust will have a happy effect. We shall have speedy need of a 
supply of paper and other articles for this part of our establishment. The 
advices we have from Malta agree with what was stated by the Secretary of 
the American Board, that the best course is to have paper sent from 
America. When we have funds more easily at command, we shall make 


180 Report of the Board of Directors. 1892. 


the trial ourselves, by importing a small quantity from Italy and France, And 
here we feel compelled to enter upon a painful part of our communication, viz., 
the importance of finding a substitute for one member of our Mission. Mr. 
Bingham has informed us that he feels desirous of returning to his native 
land. He is willing, if the Society think best to hold him to his contract, to 
_ fulfil his: engagement for five years, and at all events he will expect to remain 
until we procure another head for the office. He says that he embarked in. 
the cause without due reflection, and partly through the influence of others; 
that he does not feel qualified for a Missionary life ; and that he thinks that 
another might supply his place, with advantage to our operations,’ 


“On the receipt of this letter, the Committee adopted the follow- 
ing resolution: ‘That the Secretary inform the Missionaries to 
Greece, that so soon as a suitable substitute for the printer to that 
Mission can be procured, Mr. Bingham shall be released from his 
contract; and also that the Secretary request the Greek Committee 
at Boston to take such measures as shall be in their power to 
procure a a suitable head of the printing-office in Greece.’ 

‘On the 19th of March, the Rev. abs Hill wrote to inform the 

Executive Committee, that the Rev. Mr. Robertson and himself had 
agreed to divide the labor of the Mission establishment, according 
to the present plan. ‘Everything connected with the printing 
department comes under the Rev. Mr. R.’s purview, and whatever 
has relation to schools or to education, falls to Mr. H.’s share of 
duty.’ At the same time, such a general superintendence is to be 
maintained by both, that each will be consulted upon every impor- 
tant step designed by the other, and the most friendly and brotherly 
interest taken in the success of each. In the case of the absence of 
either, the other will direct the department of the one who is 
absent. ; 
“The Committee having coneiianee this arrangement of their 
Missionaries, adopted the followin g resolution: ‘That the plan pro- 
posed by the Rey. Mr. Hill in his letter of March 19th, for the 
division of labor between him and his colleague, which has been 
thought by them necessary for the more effectual prosecution of 
their Mission, has the entire sanction of the Executive Committee. 


‘C AFRICAN MISSION. 


“When a Mission to Africa was first contemplated by the Society, 
a considerable quantity of clothing, hardware, etc., was presented 
for the use of the poor natives of that country, by ne members of 
our Church in different parts of the United States. 


“1882. Leeport of the Board of Directors. 184 


“The Executive Committee cherishing the hope that, notwith- 
standing the failure of their several attempts to diffuse the blessings 
of civilization and Christianity over that benighted and barbarous 
portion of the earth, the desire of their hearts with respect to the 
establishment of a Mission there would ere long be. realized, 
retained in their possession for a long period whatever nae bebn 
_ thus benevolently contributed. 3 
“Seeing at length no reasonable prospect of accomplishing this 
- object, and believing that it would be an act of injustice, as well to 
the donors as to those whom they designed to benefit, to suffer the 
articles to lie any longer useless on their hands, the Committee, in 
August last, resolved to transfer them to the American Colonization 
Society, to be disposed of according to their original designation. 
Information of this measure having been communicated to the ‘A. 
C.5.,’ a vote of thanks was passed by that Institution for the dona- 
tion. Subsequently, in compliance with directions received from 
one of its Agents, the goods were forwarded to Norfolk, Va. 


“¢ CONCLUSION. 


“On a general survey of their proceedings during the period 
which the foregoing report includes, the Board cannot but perceive 
a most sensible increase of zeal, liberality, and effort on the part of 
the members of the Church with respect to the Institution on whose 
concerns they are now assembled. But while they take pleasure in 
making this acknowledgment, the Board would not be unmindful of 
the very considerable extension of some of the Missions established 
under their direction, and of the absolute importance of augmented 
exertions, in order to provide the means essential to so enlarged a 
scale of operations. 

“Unless the patronage which is extended to the Society shall be 
in proportion to the expansion of its endeavors for the promotion of 
the Divine glory and the good of mankind, circumstances must nec- 
essarily ensue, which will not only subject the Executive Depart- 
ment to exceeding inconvenience, anxiety, and embarrassment (as 
has in the preceding year been the case), but, what is infinitely more 
to be deprecated, may bring a reproach upon the Church, which for 
ages, perhaps, will be remembered to her disadvantage. 

‘* After a mature deliberation upon the measures necessary to be 
adopted in order to secure the uninterrupted prosperity of the In- 
stitution, the Board have been led to the conclusion that the estab- 


182 Report of the Board of Directors. 1882. 
: es 

lishment of Auxiliary Associations is a means which, above all 
others, will be conducive to this purpose. In fact, they believe 
that upon an accession to the number already existing of these 
invaluable institutions, and their persevering codperation with the 
parent Society, must depend, under Providence, in a very great 
degree, the success of the enterprises on which the Board have 
already entered, as well as their ability to widen the sphere of their 
operations for the advancement of the Redeemer’s kingdom. 

“Deeply convinced of this truth, the Board have attempted, by 
means of circular letters and the Missionary Paper, to impress in a 
similar manner the minds of the Episcopalians generally through- 
out this country. But as yet they have to regret that the amount 
of aid derived from this species of organized action bears no pro- 
portion to the extent of the Church, or the number and wealth of 
its members. To effect, therefore, such an extensive union of ex- 
ertion in behalf of the Society as the propitious management of its 
affairs imperiously demands, is an object which, in the estimation of 
the Board, is of primary importance. And they feel themselves 
called upon, by every consideration which duty to their constituents 
and the best interests of the Institution can suggest, to avail them- 
selves at once of all those expedients which in their judgment may 
be most calculated to accomplish the end in view. 

“Tn concluding the present record of the Society’s transactions, 
and of their own views and designs with respect to its future wel- 


fare, the Board would look up to Him, in whose cause they trust: 


they are engaged, praising Him for the past mercies which He has 
vouchsafed to this object of their charge, and supplicating in its 
behalf, a continuance of the Divine protection, guidance, and bless- 
ing. And while, through the goodness of the great Disposer of life, 
their active powers are continued, they desire to proceed with re- 
newed vigor in the work to which they have set their hands, humbly 
hoping that the smiles of Heaven will rest upon them, and that their 
labor ‘ will not be in vain in the Lord.’ ” 


OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. 
President : 
Rt. Rev. William White, p.p. 
Vice Presidents : 
Rt. Rev. A. V. Griswold, p.p., Rt. Rev. William M, Stone, p.p., 


1882. Report of the Board of Directors. 183 


Rt. Rev. R. C. Moore, p.p., Rt. Rev. B. T. Onderdonk, p.p., 
+ N. Bowen, p.p., i L. 8. Ives, p.p., 
‘¢. PP. Chase, p.p., ‘s B. B. Smith, v.p., 
T. C. Brownell, p.p., “t J. H. Hopkins, p.v., 
a H. U. Onderdonk, p.p., “ C. P. McIlvaine, p.v., 
we William Meade, p.p., $8 G. W. Doane, a.m. 
Secretary : 


Rev. P. Van Pelt. 


Treasurer: 


Jacob Lex, Esq. 


Auditor : 
C. N. Bancker, Esq. 


Executive Committee: 


Rt. Rev. William White, p.p., ex officio. 
H. U. Onderdonk, p.p.,  “ 


Rev. P. Van, Pelt, is 
Mr. Jacob Lex, zs 
C. N. Bancker, 
Rey. J. Montgomery, p.p., Mr. P. H. Nicklin, 
G. A. Smith, C. Wheeler, 
G. Boyd, — L. R. Ashhurst, 
G. T. Bedell, v.p., J. C. Biddle, 
S. H. Tyng, v.p., Dr. C. Morris, 
H. J. Morton, J. Wiltbank. 


Trustees of the Permanent Fund: 
Messrs. C. N. Bancker, J. Read, and J. Lex. 


Directors chosen 1832: 


Maine, Rev. J. Clap, 
. S. Greenleaf, Esq., 
New Hampshire, S. Pierce, Esq., 
_ Massachusetts, Rev. J. S. Stone, 
Vermont, «« A. Bronson, 
‘¢ Carlton Chase, 
Connecticut, Rev. N. 8. Wheaton, p.p., 


“ FH. Croswell, 


184 Report of the Board of Durectors. 1822, 


New York, Rev. F. L. Hawks, p.p., 
| Floyd Smith, Esq., 
New Jersey, Rey. G. Y. Morehouse, 

Pennsylvania, Cd eel, 


« “GeAl mith, 
eLearn DoD. 
C, N. Bancker Raa: 
J. C. Biddle, Baas 
C. Wheeler, Esq., 
L. R. Ro nhuest: Esq., 
Paul Beck, Esq., 


Delaware, Rev. I. Pardee, 
Maryland, OEE IW. CSNY yh are 
Virginia, “ HH. W. Ducachet, m.p., 
«6S. P. MeGuire, 
South Carolina, “ C. E. Gadsden, p.p. 
Patrons: 
Rev. J. Abercrombie, p.p., + Rev. J. P.K. Henshaw, D.p.,+ 
a Gea lion. Co J. ee 
‘¢ H. Anthon, + Rt. Rev. J. H. Hopkins Dae 
PG Boyes Rev. L. 8. Ives, p.m, f 7 
“ F. Beasley, p.p., + Pee ip: Hengersene: 
* G. T. Bedell, p:p., f **° 5.0, games ee 
A. L. Baury, f | a i Veal aceon 
De Butlers « $8. Johnston, + 
« S. C. Brinekle, ¢ “J. Kemper, 2.0.7 
“ C. Burroughs, ¢ Wa Fee y 
<¢ (eBC. Cutler + CJ. Milner ae 
“hk. B. Croes, + “J. Montgomery, v.p., + 
“© John Croes, + « Wm. C. Mead, p.n:, t 
« J. Chapman, t “ R. U. Morgan, t . 
«© B.S. Mason, p.p., t «J. R. Walker, + 
¢ J. Morss, + “ C. H. Wharton, p.p., + 
“ $8. Nichols, + . ©. Gs Weller 
“ B. G. Noble, ¢ < B. Wilson; B:Di54 
«A. Potter, + E. Andrus, Esq., + 
« S. W. Presstman, + J. Bowdoin, Esq., ¢ 
sc’ W.. -Richmond,t E. Burd, Esq., ¢ 


“J. J. Robertson, + J.C. Herbert, Esq.,¢ 


Ws. “ad aes es: 


1882. Leeport of the Board of Directors. eB ho. 
Rev. J. Rodney, + W. Jay, Esq., t 
“¢ R. Sherwood, t F. S. Key, Esq., + 
Rt. Rev. B. B. Smith, p.v., + A. C. Magruder, Esq.,t 
Rev. 8. H. Turner, p.p., + Joseph Marsh, Esq., t 
or. an Pelt,+ Dr. C. Morris, + 
feet. ..Cuminge, t¢ P. H. Nicklin, Esq., + 
« W.H. DeLancey, v.p., + E. A. Newton, Esq., t 
Rt. Rev. G. W. Doane, a.m., + Mr. John Pintard, + 
Rey. A. Eaton, p.p., t . “* George Pomeroy, t+ 
fot. Edson, + K. Tuckerman, Esq., t 
“ >. B. Paddock, , Rev. E. R. Lippitt, 
“« William Jarvis, “« W. L. Johnson, 
William Croswell, « W.H. Lewis, 
« G. Y. Morehouse, Siapoth Lyne. D.D., 
Rt. Rev. C. P. McIlvaine, p.p., «I. Pardee, 
Rev. George Kirk, ; “¢ 8. Seabury, 
“ G. C. Shepard, ) “6S. P. Fenner, 
ek. Keith, p.p.{ ea be Wii Latch, 
“  P. 8. Ten Broeck, | pias Ligh tall 
** Carlton Chase, “ 6C. M. Dupuy, 
“J. A. Hicks; Mr. J. Shatzel, 
« EK. Wheeler, Mrs. 8. Dehon, 
 H. J. Whitehouse, “ K. Kohne, 
aloe, Stone, : “ M. Markoe, 
“ Thomas Jackson, “¢ M. Banyer, 
Pee. Crocker, p.D., “ A. Jay, } 
« Samuel Fuller, Jr., “ OC. Lawrence, 
« ¥F. L. Hawks, “ S. Russell, 
¢ _H. Sayres, Saat Me C.-Gtegory. 


All the Bishops of the Church are, ew officio, members of the Board of 
Directors. . 

Those whose names are marked with a + in the above list are also (by the 
payment of $50, previous to August, 1829), according to the Fifth Article of the 
Constitution, members of the Board. 


Life Members: 


Mrs. E. Ashhurst, Philadelphia. 
Rey. William Bryant, | ie 
Rt. Rev. N. Bowen, Charleston, 8. C. 


Rev. J. Bristed, Bristol, R. I. 


186 


Report of the Board of Directors. 


Samuel Cox, 
James Cox, 
John White, 
S. Warren, 
F. Withers, 
Rh. F. Withers, 
R. A. Withers, 
1. Ward; 
Mrs. E. A. Clarkson, 
Rev. Orange Clark, 
S. J. Donaldson, Esq., 
Rev. B. Dorr, 
“¢ 6M. Eastburn, 
Israel Kinsman, 
Miss M. A. LaBruce, 
Joseph P. LaBruce, 
Rev. M. H. Lance, 
“ H. P. Powers, 
Thomas Ryerson, 
Gil. Robertson, 
J. Rapeley, 
Mrs. E. Rapeley, 
Mrs. J. Rush, 
John Read, Esq., 
Rev. J. Spencer, D.p., 
Silas Sprague, 
Rev. H. Smith, 
“ 'T. Strong, 
Mr. J. M. Head, 
HH. Sybert, 
Miss E. Turner, 
“ 6J. B. Turner, 
Mrs. E. Waters, 
John Gray, 
Rev. C. E. Gadsden, p.p., 
“cA. Gibbes, 


Philadelphia. 


66 


66 


Trey, Nene 
Georgetown, 8. C. 
6c 


66 


66 


Charleston, S. C. 
Saratoga Co., N. Y. 
Baltimore, Md. 
Utica, N. Y. 

New York. 
Philadelphia. 
Georgetown, 8. C. 


ce 


Newark, N. J. 
Philadelphia. 


66 


Charleston, 8. C. | 


66 


Philadelphia. 


66 


Easton, Md. 


Hartford, Conn. 
Greenfield, Mass. 


Philadelphia. 
New York. 


6¢ 


Philadelphia. 
near Fredericksburg, Va. 
Charleston, 8. C. 


Thomas 8. Grimke, Esq., ‘“ 


Mrs. E. Gates, 
“HH. R.. Potter, 
Thomas Higham, 


Quincy, Mass. 
Charleston, 8. C. 


1882. 


1682. Report of the Board of Directors. 187 


Mrs. D, E. Huger, Charleston, 8. C. 
Miss M. E. Hasford, ae 
William Heyward, St. Luke’s, 8. C. 
Miss Harris, Charleston, 8. C. 
F. M. Weston, x 
Mrs. Waring, rt 
Rev. Levi Bull, Rev. George Jones, 
ESR. Lippitt, “$8. Nash, 
“cA. B, Hard, “ F. W. Beasley, 
“« §. C. Stratton, “A. Bronson, 
« Smith Pyne, . © Lot Jones, 
“¢ MM. B. Chase, “Jos. Muenscher, 
“ William Barlow, “¢ =M. H. Henderson, 
“ Henry R. Judah, “ C. Colton, 
“6S. M. Guion, “ W.S. Perkins, 
bce. 1. Hare,,. “ G. F. Haskins, 
Mr. John Farr, <: WP: Potter, ' 
“ William Stavely, Mrs. R. H. Hopkins, 
“ Nathan Warren, “© Eliz. Grant, 
Mrs. C. Finney, Miss Hester Turner, 
Miss Eliz. M. Turner, Mr. Samuel B. Babcock, 
Rev. R. Prout, “ George Dearth, 
Mr. Robert B. Aertsen. 
Members : 
Mr. Charles Wheeler, Rev. G. A. Smith, 
Dr. Trent, Richmond, Va., « PL. Whipple, 
Mr. J.G. Williams, “ «¢ 6J. Hutchins, p.p., 
Rev. E. M. P. Wells, Boston, ‘ Benj. Hale, 
Dr. J. K. Mitchell, Phila, «3. J. Tschudy, 
Mr. John White, * Pierce Connelly, 
“ P. Van Pelt, Prof, D, Oliver, 
Pak Pociohrst, a Mrs. Ann Halberstadt, 
“ C. Comegys, rk “ Benjamin Hale, 
“' Thomas Hale,.  “ “John Sergeant, 
pei browne, “Eliz. Dunlap, 
fa CeN, Bancker,  “ «A. M. Tilghman, 
“« J.C. Biddle, £< “J. C. Lowber, 
“ 'T. Cadwallader, “ “¢ M. Shaw, 


“ J. Wilmer, + ced Cott, 


188 Report of the Board of Directors. 1822. 


Mr. J. Nixon, Philadelphia, Mrs. H. Middleton, 8. C., 


eS. Breck, ‘¢ Samuel Wilson, “ 
Rev. G. Weller, Master W. Dehon, vs 
“ J. Wiltbank, «¢ " 'T. Dehon, tf 
ed OC Clan Mr. C. C, Pinckney, “ 


Rt. Rev. C. P. McIlvaine, p.p., Miss C. Clark; N. J., 
4 B. T. Onderdonk, p.p., «< ~ Aertsen,; 


Rev. J. Croes, « L,. Smith, 
“« J. M. Wainwright, v.p., “ M. Yeates, 
‘SC Sani: “ 6C. Yeates, 
“ Samuel Johnston, Mr. J. Hunter, 
“J. M. Douglass, Dr. C. Morris, 
“¢ R. 8S. Mason, Mr. M. Greenleaf, Me., 
“ C. Hanckell, «J. W. Foote, Miss. 


TREASURER’S REPORT. 


Abstract of Receipts from May 12, 1831, to October 18, 1882. 


For General Mission Account... 42... <s siejs< ms sheets eee $6,072 12 
Domestic: Mission Accounts). s ...'..cs.clels che oo usenet pat bE se at 
Foreign Mission Account... .: 2swie ere ob le ee 209 31 
‘Greek Mission Account..\.\.... 2.525 s)s a0 chen Ue m siele einen - 8,810 56 
Green Bay Mission Account... ....<..0..'5. 59 te ee 10,926 67 
Florida Mission Account, 3. ¢. 0.0.5. 55). Cste cast oes Bol 40 50 
Liberia Mission Account.. 3... . <... 00s scse oe os 5 sheen enn 1 50 - 

$26,682 37 
Balances, October 13, 1832. 
Dr. CR. 

Domestic Mission Account. ....)5..0.+.cseesens eee $2,002 91 

Green Bay Mission Account. <.°.:...... se" 6) Ge eae 6,058 95 

Florida Mission Account..: 0.2... 0.0... sees eee 1,060 02 

Permanent Fund Account:...: 2.7255. - eee 10 36 

General ‘Mission Account.. .... : 45 cme ouee eee ener $6,832 03 

Foreign Mission Account... .. 11s 2<sseieleanen nse 1,403 36 

Greek ‘Mission Account, ./.0... 2% oc coseianisn Cane ene . 1,048 93 

Liberia Mission Account: *.. 3... 2.25 aewkieee eee 68 67 

Cash on ban yilei-sisie eds v's bie ogi tipinie sob eee eee 215 75 


$9,347 99 $9,347 99 


CHAPTER V. 


From. tHE Trrenntat Meretine, Octroper 18, 1832, To THE 
TrrenntaL Merrtine, Aveust, 22, 1835. 


ANNUAL MEETING, 1833. 


A Statep Meerrine of the Board of Directors was held in the 
Society’s room, Philadelphia, mackdey, May 14, 1833, at ten 
o’clock a.m. 

Present, The Rt. Rev. Bishops White, H. U. Onderdonk, and 
Doane; the Rev. Drs. Henshaw, Milnor, Wheaton, Abercrom- 
bie, Montgomery, Tyng, and Mead; the Rev. Messrs. Morehouse, 
Edson, Jackson, Presstman, Boyd, Clay, Pardee, Smith, Rodney, 
‘Henderson, and Van Pelt; Messrs. Newton, Nicklin, Biddle, 
-and Ashhurst. 

After prayers and reading of the minutes of the last meeting, 
the Executive Committee submitted their report for the preced- 
ing seven months, which was read and referred. 

It was, on motion. 


Resolved, That a committee be appointed, in compliance with 
the Tenth Article of the Constitution, to prepare an Annual BUS 
of the Board of Directors. 


The Rev. Drs. Montgomery, Milnor, and eps and the 
Rey. Messrs. Edson, Boyd, and Presstman were appointed. 

The Treasurer’s Report was read, and referred to a committee 
consisting of Messrs. Ashhurst, Wheeler, and Newton. 


“ Resolved, That a committee be appointed to take into con- 
sideration and report to this Board, at this session, the best meas- 
ures to be adopted by it for extending the operations of the Society 
in our own country and in Africa.” 


190 Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 1858. 


The Rt. Rev. Bishop Doane, E. A. Newton, Esq., Drs. Mil- 
nor and Tyng, and the Rev. Mr. Edson, were appointed the com- 
mittee. 

A letter from Jacob Lex, Esq., was read, resigning the office 
of Treasurer of the Society. 

It was, on motion, 


“ Resolved, That the resignation of Mr. Lex be accepted, and that 
the thanks of this Board be presented to him for the faithful man- 
ner in which he has discharged the duties of Treasurer of ae 
‘Society during the three years last past.” 


On motion of the Secretary a committee, consisting of the Rev. 
Drs. Henshaw and Mead, the Rev. Messrs. Clay, Rodney, and the 
Secretary, was appointed to nominate suitable persons to serve as 
an Executive Committee, until the next stated meeting of the 
Board; and also to supply all vacancies which exist in the offices 
of the Society, which are to be filled by the Board of Directors. 

The persons subsequently nominated by this committee were 
as follows: | 


Executive Committee: 


Rev. Dr. Montgomery, Mr. C. Wheeler, 
ticheecainerd Weg yea “ L. R. Ashhurst, 
cc Bedell, “« J.C. Biddle, 
sf G. A. Smith, “Jacob Lex, 

& J. W. James, Dr. C. Morris, 
Mr. P. G. Nicklin, “6S. Wiltbank. 


Treasurer—Thomas Robins, Esq. 

Auditor—C. N. Bancker, Esq. 

Trustees of the Perna Fund. —Messrs. C. N. Bancker, J. 
Read, Thomas Robins. 


It was, on motion, 


“ Resolved, That the individuals named on the above list be 
appointed.” 


Note. It should be remarked, we here repeat, that in the record of proceed- 
ings, the scope of this work embraces only such as are of a general character, 
and such as relate to Moreign Missions. 


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A committee was appointed, as usual, to examine the records, 
books, ete. -— 

The committee consisted of ©. Wheeler, Esq.. .. the Rey. Dr. 
Mead, and the Rev. Mr. Clay. 

This committee subsequently reported that they had performed 
the duty assigned to them, and found the books, papers, etc., of the 
Society kept with much neatness and apparent accuracy. 

It was, on motion, 


“ Resolved, That a committee be appointed to report suitable 
plans of operations for the government of the General Agent of the 
Society, and inquire into the expediency of giving further instruc- 
tions.” 


The Rt. Rey. Bishop Onderdonk, the Rev. Dr. Henshaw, and 
the Rev. Mr. Morehouse were appointed the committee. 

The Board adjourned, to meet at St. Stephen’s Church at 74 
p.m. that evening, to attend divine service and hear the sermon 
before the Board by the Rev. Dr. Wyatt, and to meet again for 
business at the Mission-room, at 9 a.m. on the 15th. 

Wepnespay, May 15, 1833. 

The Board met. Present, the Rt. Rev. Bishops White, 
Onderdonk, and Doane; the Rev. Drs. Wyatt, Milnor, Hen- 
shaw, Abercrombie, Montgomery, Wheaton, Tyng, DeLan-. 
cey, and Mead; the Rev. Messrs. Clay, Presstman, Boyd, Edson, 
Pardee, Jackson, Brinckle, Smith, Itodney, Henderson, and Van 
Pelt; Messrs. Nicklin, Wheeler, Newton, Biddle,‘and Ashhurst. 

After prayers and reading of the minutes, the Committee on 
the Treasurer’s Account reported that they had found the same 
correct, and made an indorsement on it to that effect. 

The Report was referred back to the Committee, with a view 
to their suggesting whether any and what practicable reduction 
of the expenses of the Society can be made. 

This subject was subsequently disposed of by the adoption of 
the following resolution : 


“ Resolved, That the Executive Committee be instructed to 
inquire whether the contingent expenses of this Society can be 
reduced without injury to its interests, and report to the Board 
of Directors at the next Annual Meeting.” 


192 Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 1883, 


The Committee on the General Agency reported as follows : 


“The committee appointed to inquire whether it is necessary or 


expedient to give any further instructions to the General Agent of — 


this Society, find, on reference to the letter of instructions * given 


* The letter referred to, is as follows: 


“The following letter of instruction was furnished him by the Right Rever- 


end Bishop White, the President of the Society: 
“«< WEBRUARY 18, 1833. 

“*ReEv. AND DEAR Sr: As you are preparing to enter on your Missionary 
Agency, it has become my duty to certify, as I hereby do, to all whom it may 
concern, that you will be acting under the appointment of “ The Executive 
Committee of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church in the United States.” 

««There is a large field for you in each of the departments which are the 
objects of the Society. In the Domestic, there are the calls made on us from 
the north, from the south, and from the west, by members of our Communion 
in States recently risen, and rapidly increasing in importance, but deeply 
sensible of their destitution, in being cut off from the means of grace enjoyed 


by their ancestors during past generations, and in many instances by them- — 


selves in early life; but which they have little prospect of their transmitting 
to posterity without the aid of their more favored brethren in the east. This 
they have the more reason to expect, as it will be an imitating of the example 
of our brethren on the other side of the Atlantic; who, in the infancy of the 
Colonies, now the United States, did not neglect to extend their fostering care 
to the emigrant members of their Communion. It was a deed of Christian 
charity, which laid the foundation of the Church, who now addresses her 
children for the extending of a patronage similar to that received by them. 

“<Tn relation to the Foreign department you will derive aid from those high 
injunctions of Scripture, which have enjoined, as an obligation laid by the 
Divine Author of our holy religion, and by His blessed Apostles, on all who 
should come after them to the end of time, to cause the Gospel to be known so 
far as may be in their power, to all nations. Let there be possessed the inesti- 
mable treasure of this dispensation of grace duly cherished, and it will be 
found hereafter, as heretofore, that the two species of benevolence adminis- 
tered to one another; and that in proportion to the interest which we feel in 
wants nearer to our homes, will be our desire to follow in the train of the angel 
spoken of in the book of Revelation, with the everlasting Gospel to be preached 
“to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.” 

«* Without the admission of any ground of competition between the two de- 
partments of Missionary energy, yet as there are circumstances which may cause 
one of them to be more impressive than the other on the mind of any individual, 
the Society have wisely given an opening for a choice between the two. This 
is a provision not only to be sacredly regarded, but to be carefully explained 
whenever need may so require. 

«While on every occasion of devotional service you will of course be gov- 


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1833. Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 193 


to the Agent by the President, that it covers the whole field, and 
expresses with as much distinctness as is needful, the principles by 
which he is to be governed in the discharge of his duties as the 
representative of this important Institution of the Church, and the 
measures which he is diligently to prosecute for the advancement 
of its objects. They therefore report that, in their judgment, it is 
unnecessary, at the present time, for this Board to give any further 
instructions to the General Agent, and they therefore beg leave to 
offer the following resolution : 

“ Resolved, That it shall be the duty of the Executive Com- 
mittee, either by standig directions, or from time to time, to in- 
struct the General Agent as to the places he shall visit, and the 
measures he shall pursue to insure the greatest degree of efficiency 
to his operations.” 


The Report and the Resolution were adopted. 
The Committee on extending the operations of the Society 


erned by the Rubrics and by the Canons of our Church, there will occasionally 
occur to you the delicate task of declaring the ground on which, in Missionary 
exertions, she acts in her separate capacity; not associating with other 
religious societies in the sacred cause. It is so far from being the effect of 
hostility to societies dissenting from us, yet holding the essentials of 
Christian doctrine, that we see no other way of excluding needless contro- 
versy, so destructive of mutual respect and of charity. Of this we are aware 
from the nature of the subject, and it has been confirmed to us by a great 
variety of incidents. 

«« For the accomplishing of the important object before you, in addition to 
the contributions which may be immediately made by individuals, it will be 
expedient to form associations for the easier correspondence of annual con- 
tributors with the Society. This will also have the advantage of mutual 
excitement, and of preventing the decline of any interest taken in the cause. 

«* As your agency will cause your absence from your parish for some months ; 
and as according to one of our Diocesan Canons, this may not be without my 
leave, it is now given to the extent of my power. This is done by me the more 
willingly, as I find that your place will be supplied by a Reverend Brother of 
good standing in our Church. 

“«« Wishing great success to your agency, and your health and happiness in 
the prosecution of: it, lam, respectfully, your affectionate brother, 

“«WILLIAM WHITE, 
“« Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Commonwealth of Penn- 
sylvania, and President of the Executive Committee. 

««To the Rev. GEORGE Boyp.’” 


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194 Proceedings of the Board of Dvrectors. 1993. 


presented the following Report, which, together with the resolu- 
tions accompanying it, was adopted: 


“The Committee appointed to consider and report the mode and 
means to be adopted by the Board of Directors for extending the 
ministrations of the Church to every portion of the United States, 
and to the continent of Africa, respectfully report: that they have 
given to this great question the most careful consideration, Their 
first impulse is to render their fervent thanks to Almighty God for 
the great increase with which, in the past year, he has vouchsafed 
to bless the revenues of the Society. It*is a pledge, they confi- 
dently trust, of His favorable goodness toward us; and, so far 
from encouraging us to any relaxation of effort. in behalf of the high 
interests with which we are charged, it summons, and should 
constrain us, to renew our endeavors, and to redouble our prayers, 
in the conviction that in the great work to which He has called us, 
the Lord is with us. The income of the Society may now, for the 
Jirst time, be regarded as approximating to what should reasonably 
be expected of us in our highly favored position, as a portion of the 
Church of Christ. It now first begins to be seen that Churchmen 
generally are sensible of their obligations to the Lord that bought 
them, and to those who, however dark and destitute their condition, 
were equally bought with the same precious blood. Let us take 
care that it be regarded by us only as a beginning. Now that the 
Society has overcome the trials and difficulties of its past years ; 
now that the blessing of the Lord upon it is manifested in the hold 
which it begins to have upon the hearts of the people; now that its 
income is first counted in tens of thousands, it will be to our inex- 
pressible disgrace, if, for want of exertions on our PAYS one single 
step be suffered in retrogradation. 

“The prosperity of the Society, and its efficient usefulness to the 
Church, are to be secured, the Committee believe, under God, only 
by a determination, on the part of its directors, to go forward in the 
cause in which they have entered; and to lead, rather than follow, 
the progress of the Church. The Society is to be the pioneer of the 
Church. It is to go before her, as John the Baptist went before his 
Saviour, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. We need 
not fear to do so. All experience proves that when Christian men 
are plainly shown their duty, in the extension of the Church, they 
will not shrink from doing it,—that where the trumpet gives a clear 


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1833, Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 195 


and certain sound, they will follow to the battle. And, what is still 
more for our encouragement, all Scripture shows that when the 
heralds of the Saviour will go fearlessly forward, in their Master’s 
name and strength, to preach His Gospel and to bear His cross, He 
will be with them, to direct, sustain, and bless them. But they 
must be content to go in faith. They must confide in their Mas- 
ter’s help, and notin man’s. They must rely on His ability to make 
His people willing in the day of His power. They must trust to the 
express promise, ‘ Whatever ye shall ask in my name, believing, ye 
shall receive.’ Pursuing the train of these convictions, and beliey- 
ing that no other are worthy to be adopted by a Society for Chris- 
tian Missions, the Committee have come to the conclusion to recom- 
mend to the Board of Directors, as the best mode of increasing the 
MEANS of the Society, an immediate and very considerable increase 
of tts active OPERATIONS. | 
“Tt is not necessary for the Committee to enlarge upon the duty 
which, as Christians and as Churchmen, we owe to the extensive re- 
gions of our own Republic, in which the ministrations of the Church 
do not exist, or are but partially and imperfectly enjoyed. And 
there is as little necessity to enlarge upon -the favorable oppor- 
tunities—the fields white for the harvest—which those vast and 
rapidly improving States and Territories everywhere present. Ap- 
pealing at once to the knowledge and interest on this subject, so 
dear to our bearts as patriots, as Churchmen, and as Christians, 
which every member of the Board, in common with themselves, en- 
joys and entertains, and relying confidently on the love and zeal 
for souls which animate the brethren of our whole communion; and, 
above all, relying upon His grace, who, by His Holy Spirit, puts 
into our minds good desires, and enables us to bring the same to 
good effect; the Committee believe it to be the duty of this Board— 
and they most earnestly commend it to its immediate attention to 
instruct the Executive Committee to appoint, as soon hereafter as 
suitable persons can be found, twenty additional Missionaries, for 
the current year, to be employed, in their discretion, and subject to 
the approbation of the ecclesiastical authorities, severally, in the fol- 
lowing States, Territories, and Dioceses, viz., Maine, Michigan, 
Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Southwestern Diocese, and 
such other States and Territories in the West and South as are not 
yet organized into Dioceses. 
“In regard to the continent of Africa, the Committee, in the spirit 


196 ae Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 1883. 


of the same high sense of duty, and in the same devout reliance, 
recommend the same vigorous measures. It is well known that the 
attention of the Society was very early turned to this ill-fated and 
degraded region. It is as well known that with the best desires for — 
the establishment of a Mission on its shores, nothing has yet been 
done. Circumstances, beyond the control of the Society, have con- 
tributed to, or caused this result. In the meantime, it is well known 
to the Board that the favorable hand of God has been continually 
removing or mitigating the obstacles which have hindered the estab- 
lishment of Christianity on the coast of Africa. At the colony of 
Liberia, a settlement steadily advancing, now a permanent, and 
soon to be a very prosperous community, Missionaries in the employ 
of Christians of other names are established and actively engaged. 
The Committee cannot believe that the Protestant Episcopal Church 
will willingly remain a silent spectator of efforts so important to the 
cause of Christianity, and so incumbent upon all who profess its ob- 
ligations and enjoy its privileges. They therefore feel it to be their 
duty to recommend to the Executive Committee the appointment, 
as soon as suitable persons may offer, of two Missionaries at the 
colony of Liberia and its vicinity. 

‘“‘ Nor can the Committee, contemplating the thick darkness which 
involves the whole continent of Africa; the peculiar obligations 
under which we, as Americans, lie to the ignorant and miserable 
race, whose fortunes are so closely and so sadly connected with our 
own; and the openings into its territories which, at various points, 
within the last few years, have providentially been made, content 
themselves with this recommendation. They confidently believe 
that entrance may be made into Africa through other points as well 
as through Liberia. They recommend, therefore, the immediate in- 
stitution and vigorous prosecution of an inquiry to this effect. 
Other portions of the heathen world are invaded at every point by 
the soldiers of the Cross. The breaking down of strongholds goes 
vigorously on; and the kingdoms of this world, so far as Asia is con- 
cerned, are rapidly becoming the kingdoms of our Lord and of His 
Christ. Africa, meanwhile, lies almost untouched. There is scarce- 
ly a voice in the length and breadth of her immense peninsula to 
break the deep and painful silence of her living sepulchres. For 
what is she reserved? Who is to go forth there, to the help of the 
Lord against the mighty ? By whose instrumentality—for God 
ever works by means—is Ethiopia to stretch forth her hands unto 


seo. Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 197 


God?, Let us, of this Church, arise and answer! Let our reply be, 
‘Here are we, Lord; send us!’ Let ours be the endeavor, that 
man’s may be the blessedness, and God’s the glory, of this magnifi- 
cent—and, so certainly as the Divine Word is truth—this sure 
result. | 

“Tn conclusion, the Committee offer for the adoption of the Board, 
the following resolutions: : 


“«1_ Resolved, That in the sense of this Board, it is their duty, relying on the 
promise of God to be with and to bless His Church, to recommend to the Exec- 
utive Committee the appointment, so soon as suitable persons can be found, of 
twenty additional Missionaries, for the current year, to be assigned in their dis- 
cretion, and with the consent, severally, of the ecclesiastical authorities, to the 
following States, Territories, and Dioceses, viz., Maine, Michigan, Ohio, Ken- 
tucky, Tennessee, and the Southwestern Diocese, and such other States and 
Territories in the West and South as are not yet organized into Dioceses. 

«<9. Resolved, That in the same sense of duty, and in the same reliance, it be 
recommended to the Executive Committee to appoint, as soon as they may be 
found, two Missionaries to Liberia, and the adjacent parts of Africa, and to 
make provision for the support of the Mission. 

««3. Resolved, That a Committee of five persons be now appointed by the 
Board of Directors, to institute such inquiries, and report thcir results, as may 
enable the Board to judge of the expediency and practicability of establishing 
Missionary stations in other parts of Africa. 

«4 Resolved, That under a deep conviction of the spiritual wants of our 
fellow-countrymen, and of the entire spiritual destitution of Africa, and other 
portions of the heathen world, it is the bounden duty of our whole commun- 
ion, in dependence on the promises of God, to sustain the Board of Directors in 
their determination to extend to the utmost the operations of the Society. 

«« All which is respectfully submitted, for the Committee, 

“*G, W. DOANE, Chairman.’ 


“On motion of Dr. Tyng, it was ; 


«« Resolved, To fill up the blank in the third resolution in the following 
manner: the Right Rev. Bishop Doane, Edward A. Newton, Esq., and three 
gentlemen of New York.’ 


“The chair appointed the Rev. Drs. Milnor, Wainwright, and 
Hawks, as the three required by the resolution to serve on the Com- 
mittee. 

“On motion of Mr. Newton, it was 


“« Resolved, That it be recorded in the minutes of the Board that the above 
Report and Resolutions were adopted unanimously.’ 


198 Report of the Board of Directors. 1888, 


“On motion of Dr. Montgomery, it was 


“« Resolved, That the report alluded to in the foregoing resolution be read 
at the public Missionary meeting to be held at St. Andrew’s Church this even- 
ing, under the direction of the Executive Committee.’ 


“The Rev. Mr. Henderson submitted the following, which, on 
motion, was referred to the consideration of the Executive Commit- 
tee: 


“«* Resolved, That the sum of $50 be appropriated to each of the Society’s 
Missions, to be expended under the direction of the Executive Committee in 
the purchase of suitable books for the use of the Missionary for the time being, 
and to constitute a Parish Library, when the Mission shall cease.’ ” 


The Annual Report of the Board of Directors was, by reso- 
lution, referred to the Executive Committee, to publish such 
portions as to them may appear expedient. The Board then 
adjourned sine die. 


We proceed now to give such portions of the Annual Report 
of the Board of Directors for 1833 as are suitable to the pur- 
poses of this record : 


“ ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 


“The Board of Directors, in presenting a statement of their pro- 
ceedings, and of the general affairs of the Society, since the month 
of October last, desire to feel grateful that it is in their power to 
exhibit so much evidence of the increasing usefulness of the insti- 
‘tution intrusted to their care, and of the interest and zeal of the 
Church at large with respect to the objects for which the Society 
was established. 

“ But while the Board are thus affected at the view of the good 
which has been accomplished, and while their hearts are gladdened 
at the view of that spirit of Missionary enterprise which appears to 
be enkindling in the hearts of Episcopalians in this country, they 
cannot but lament that, after an existence of so many years, the 
sphere of the Society’s operations is still so limited, and its means 
of action so far below the ability of the members of our ‘house- 
hold of faith.’ 

“The facts to be communicated, in compliance with the Tenth 
Article of the Constitution, are as follows: 


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1888. Report of the Board of Directors. 199 


‘FUNDS. 


“There has been paid into the Treasury of the Society, since 
October 13, 1832, the sum of $16,408.22, which, added to the 
amount acknowledged in the last report for the five months pre- 
ceding that period, gives as the total received during the year com- 
mencing May 12, 1832, $26,647.39. This is an excess of $10,204.19 
over the year commencing May 12, 1831. 

“It should, however, be stated that in this amount are included 
$4,000 obtained from the Schuylkill Bank by a note of the Execu- 
tive Committee, and $2,690, the proceeds of the sale of a part of 
the Permanent Fund, leaving $3,514.19 as the real increase of the 
Society’s resources for the last year. 


“ DONATIONS. 


“From the American Tract Society there has been received 
the sum of $500 to aid the tract operations of our Missionaries in 
Greece. | 

“From the Young Men’s Tract Society of Philadelphia, $50 
for the publication of a tract in the modern Greek language, at 
Athens. 

“From the Episcopal Female Tract Society of Philadelphia, a 
large supply of their publications for distribution in the Valley of 
the Mississippi. 7 


** BEQUESTS. 


“In February last a legacy of $20 was received from the execu- 
tors of Elizabeth Grant, of New Jersey. 

“The legacy bequeathed by Miss Hall, of Vermont, has not as 
yet been received. The Board, however, have been informed that ° 
the executor has paid the specific legacies, and finds a residue of 
about $3,000 in real estate, to one third of which the Society is 
entitled. 

“The Board have learned from a respectable source that a young 
lady (a minor), late of Virginia, whose property was valued at about 
$30,000, requested, on her death-bed, that one half of this sum might 
be given to the Society. But her relatives being opposed to this 
measure, the Society has been deprived of the benefit of this large 
addition to its funds. The Board would nevertheless notice this 
circumstance as an evidence that the cause of Missions is gaining 
on the affections of the members of our Church, and as furnishing, 


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200 Leport of the Board of Directors. 1888, 


moreover, a ground for hope that this institution will not be forgotten 
by those Episcopalians whom God has blessed with wealth, when, in 
the prospect of death, they are ‘setting their house in order,’ and 
preparing to render an account of their stewardship. 


‘** ADDITIONAL MEMBERS. 


‘“‘ Since the meeting of the Board, in October, 1832, there have 
been added to the list of Annual Subscribers 4 names; to that of 
Life Members, 11 names, and to that of Patrons, 2 names. With- 
drawn or deceased, 10 Annual Subscribers. 

“Whole number of Members at the present time, 44; Life Mem- 
bers, 94; Patrons, 110. 


‘* AUXILIARY ASSOCIATIONS. 


“Tt being the deliberate conviction of the Board that there will 
always exist a most Intimate connection between the prosperity of 
the Society and the number and efficiency of its Auxiliaries, they 
regret that it is not in their power to report an accession far more 
considerable than is now to be communicated. While, however, 
they cannot but lament that there are still so many parishes in 
which no organized effort has as yet been made to increase the 
Society’s resources, they desire to be thankful that there have been 
instituted and brought into successful operation the following new 
Associations : 


Female Association of Middle Florida, 

Male Association, St. Andrew’s Church, Meriden, Conn. 

Female Association, St. Andrew’s Church, Meriden, Conn. 
Auxiliary Missionary Association, Washington College, Hartford, 
Association, Grace Church, Providence, R. I. 

Association, St. Paul’s Church, Chester, Pa. 

Association, St. Martin’s Church, Marcus Hook. 

Association, St. John’s Church, Concord. 

Association, Sunday School Society, Swedes’ Church, Philadelphia. 
Association, St. Stephen’s Church, New York. ‘ 

Juvenile Missionary Society, St. James’s Church, Derby, Conn. 
Children’s Mite Society, Rock Creek Parish, D. C. 

Association, Christ Church, Brownsville, Pa. 

Association, Trinity Church, Monroe, Michigan Territory. 
Association, St. Paul’s Church, Detroit, Michigan Territory. 
Association, Christ Church, Alexandria, D. C. 

Sunday School Teachers’ Association, St. James’s Church, Philadelphia. 


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1833. Report of the Board of Directors. 201 


“ CONTRIBUTIONS OF AUXILIARY ASSOCIATIONS. 


“The following Associations have contributed for the various purposes of the 
Society, since October last, the sums annewxed to their respective titles : 


er eth SR OCTO NV SACOM Ore eA ate aiinieis-a's ale a0 cis us slo sie de eh edawahicaeteldcos cs Jose el. $5 00 
Female Missionary Socicty, St. John’s Church, Portsmouth, N. H...................- 40 00 
Female Foreign Missionary Socicty, St. Andrew's Church, Hopkinton, N. H.......... 10 00 
Episcopal Missionary Society, Portsmouth, N. H...... WS HER OSGeo in cat Gleah CSB EBS EeomeTs 30 00 
pueeenmereror induetry, Bellows Malle, Vt... 22... occas ence wdc uy eee eenvecece 50 00 
SE aM SE TIACIOUT EN AITHOIG, VU... icc. sic cs cick a cclsckacccevcsetsdeueccyeccue wees 6 00 
eI CIALION SNCIUOD. VE... ae vaso. sv clke cede es) siccvcccscoctsdscscavaseee 20 00 
Female Missionary Socicty, St. Stephen’s Church, Middlebury, Vt..................... 11 00 
Juvenile Missionary Society, St. Stephen's Church, Middlebury, Vt................... 5 00 
Missionary Association, St. Ann’s Church, Lowell, Mass...............ccceeecceeeceeee 39 09 
See ererremtiesionary Association, RoI... 5; o.oo ee cela eden nceeccwevecccuccsteses 82 00 
Pemerowiie wovicty, New Haven, Conn. . 22.0.2... cc cscs cceceneseeeceeteecscnecenes 1 00 
Female Missionary Socicty, Christ Church, Middletown, Conn..................00 02005 380 00 
Gupiscapal Missionary Socicty, Chatham, Conn... ... 0... c.ce cece cco ecu eee ceeeeceetas 50 00 
Ladies’ Benevolent Socicty, St. Paul’s Church, Brookfield, Conn...................-+-- 12 00 
Ladies’ Missionary Socicty, St. John’s Church, Essex, Conn...............02 0 ceeeeeeee 5 00 
miducation society, St. George's Church, New-York. .....00605.06.0ccceewedee eueeeeees 300 00 
Female Missionary Socicty, St. Matthew's Church, Bedford, N. Y..................-.. 40 00 
Ladies’ Missionary Society, St. George’s Church, Flushing, L. I .............2..-..-. 75 00 
Heber Auxiliary Missionary Society, St. George’s Church, Flushing, L. I.............. 50 00 
Auxiliary Missionary Association, General Theological Seminary, N. Y................ 25 00 
Missionary Society, Christ Church, Baltimorc, Md............ ene ard eet of nial shencig (i clarec tates 45 00 
Female Missionary Society, Chestertown, M4....... Fa Hata SION Ae Re OEE . 38000 
Female Missionary Socicty, St. John’s Church, Washington, D. C...................-. 10 00 
Male and Female Missionary Association, St. Andrew’s Church, Meriden, Conn....... 31 00 
Auxiliary Society of St. John’s Parish, Waterbury, Conn........:... .......-005 eee 30 00 
Ladies’ Missionary Society, Trinity Church, Easton, Ponn...... 0.2.0.0... 02. eee eee ee 10 00 
Robertson Association, St. Paul’s Church, Philadelphia... 2.0.0.0... 0200 00 see ewes 120 00 
Sunday School Teachers’ Missionary Association, St. James’s Caurch, Philadelphia... 10 00 
peminopsocicnvos tana 6 Church, Annapolis, Mdw... 6... ccc. gerece eect cvocscceceess 30 00 
Missionary Association, St. John’s Parish, Hagerstown, Md..............--0 eee eee ee 61 00 
Juvenile Missionary Society, St. Paul’s Church, Alexandria, D. C................0.005. 30 00 
POL EB CMM VOC MISSIONATY; SOCICLY 4) V ITCINIQ. 60554 coun cule cess seuss .eccdevccacdeveves 20 00 
Missionary Society, St. George’s Church, Fredcricksburgh, Va...................e00 103 00 
Hemale Missionary Association, Trinity Church, Saco, Me.................sceeeeee eens 10 00 
Missionary Education Socicty, St. George’s Church, New York............ 0... ceee sees 250 00 
Female Missionary and Education Society, St. Gcorge’s Church, New York............ 50 00 
Missionary Association, St. John’s’ Church, Troy, N. Y........266. (wee. e eee e cece ne cee 85 00 
Female Missionary Society, St. Andrew’s Church, Philadelphia....................... 100 00 
Society of St. Paul’s Church, Philadelphia, for the Promotion of Religion............. 100 00 
Juvenile Missionary Socic'y Swedes’ Church, Philadelphia.......................-26-- 6 56 
‘Female Missionary Association, Trinity Church, Southwark, Philadelphia. ........... 50 00 
Pee EEC CLOUT NCIISIT Yea GLMOTC a. oa, = ce eicls tole swe clt npise sete siesis)s cee sies cic sees eee ss 131 00 
@iaesronary pociety, St) Panl’s Church, Alexandria: . 20/2... 2... e coelve ee eees tees 22 30 
Episcopal Female Missionary Society, Monumental Church, Ricamond, Va............ 66 00 
Sewing Socicty, Holy Trinity Chapel, Grahamville, 8. C.... 2... ce cee cece eee ees 42 00 
peamerew Neesionary Society Of Licesburg,: Vas. 2. le ioe cack cwealeed cocucecncens 30 00 
Waimarenis Mito mocicty of Rock Creck Parish, Di Ce... tic. tales cccse ccc seec ccs oeeee 5 62 
Female Missionary Society. St. Paul’s Church, Portland, Mc............... 0.0. eee eeeee 21 00 
Female Missionary Society, Grace Church, Jamaica, L.J..... 1... e cece eee ee eee 100 00 
Ladies’ Society of St. Michael’s Church, Bristol, R. 1..... 0... eee eee eee eee eee 30 00 


Missionary Society, St. Luke’s Church, Rochester, N. Y................00cee cee eeeees 250 00 
Missionary Association, St. Ann’s Church, Lowell, Mass......... .....-sseeeseee scenes 20 00 


202 Report of the Board of Directors. 1883. 
Missionary Association, St. Peter’s Church, Perth Amboy, N. J..... ail daae aheee ss Ciacaire sige OU 
Juvenile Missionary Society, St. James’s Church, Derby, Comn............. «+-+e+0 eee 10 00 
Auxiliary Missionary Society, Immanuel Church, New Castle, Del...........------+++- 2 - - 20°08 
Auxiliary Missionary Society, St. Andrew's Church, Mount Holly, N. d...............- 35 00 
Female Auxiliary Association, St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia.... .............-+-- 50 00 
Female Auxiliary Society of Leesburg, Vai... 62.2.0... . 2.0502 +005 ope een nee 10 00 
Missionary Association of Calvary Church, Homer, N. Y............0..cc cece ceececeees 19 00 
Missionary Association of St. Matthew’s Church, Moravia, N. Y.............. +--+ “opie 5 %5 
Missionary Association of St. James’s Yhurch, Philadelphia ...... .........+.+- Scan hp, AAD OD 
Female Missionary Association, St. James’s Church, New London, Conn.............. 41 00 
Missionary Association, St. Stephen’s Church, Philadelphia..................0-++-00-- 400 00 
Society of St. Paul’s Church, Philadelphia, for the Promotion of Religion........ .... 500 00 

Total nrics eo peo Sate Feat Oe OTe cd eh dice titel ies See $4,167 23 


‘“NUMBER OF ASSOCIATIONS IN EACH DIOCESE 


New.-Lam pshire (icc cao ose irae sce eiiccioierte 3) Virginia~. 2. cn 0 tio datas earner 17 
IMA LIT OS Sroce. oa Bio tietant ore atone es EE er eee 2 | Diatrict of Columbian: gacseiete ieee tte 9 
NGrmonts ox, veo 252 boise Rae oan eee 5} North Carolina....c t,o 8-2 ceee eee een 0 
Massachiipetts icscc lace. 5) we ba chaos 9} South Carolina, <x... cscs ence eerieeeaeertee es 1 
MhOde Toland... 5 lk. 5 cbse eetsea se eee rae 3 | Georgia s .cc25 a civiccetcte belts ote tie tatete se aetete aeare 1 
Connechituticcc cence sat senee Stee ose Q20:) Plorid ass ccssk qos aremewiene ties ae ae eee ees 1 
News ork So cnc6 since doh ete ne 20.| KRentuekyii nae .c sie on enteiens seeiee eee eee 1 
INO Wd CFS@Ycco: sees has ot mate eee «> S| Tennessee ji. sia seis irene 0 
Pennsylvania <a ovssek.ceser cee eae cee 1?) Ohio w, 23s oo bs eon eee eee ee eee oe 5 
Delaware oc fins ore. cece toes: ie eee 3| Michigan Territory....... js irapitaesminete 2 
Maryland). Sitlsss 2. tae octet tans 9 — 

TOtal] y eiccie ace ce-geuse a sivicusle siaterelece w'e.d loc d's. giale'e dveidiatatetee SIDGee irae ete age ete ete 133 


‘Of these, seven are composed of juvenile members, viz., three in Connecticut, one in Penn- 
gsylvania, one in Virginia, and two in the District of Columbia. 


“ AMOUNT CONTRIBUTED BY THE DIFFERENT STATES, SINCE OCTOBER 13, 1882. 


Main G2 255 siete ete & ea ero Eee ee $56:.00 | Maryland. <. o.. sacecs ate senate $522 00 
New ‘Iampshire. ............. pessese 131 00 | District of Columbia..............- 217 67 
VETIMONG Yas sre etsiseh oncirae Siaee atte 115 00.) Virginia... 26. a. cee eee eames 669 00 
Massachusetisisacclestie sats m cle nancs 488.18 | North Caroling 2 e eee ee eee 33 00 
Rhode Island... ........ Seine Bindamieke 143: 56 |. South Carolina’, <.. ia scsmeceenueue 193 25 
Connecticut ....... Be ee §83°.61:) Obio-oS.. 22 cic. sie eee ee 157 25 
INGWEVOrken cceme nts AP ee eiaeee 4.691 65 |;Michivan’.\. (2.100 lem ceniiene ates 100 00 
ING Wael CTSCY ne sentra coteun cick ener . 153 00.) Florida: ss..08.. seal eee eee eee 11 00 
IPeDDSY Vania dite tow aee eo eect 2,650 07.| "Tennessee si.cia sec aes sare iene ae 1 00 
Delaware sro tices cece ne citer cee 35,00 | Kentucky:-2 <5 s;caeemoe eines 1 00 

Total ar. svete cneree se vio as0s warned eens PERE ne ene weet els »  eieietglolleleteve stom Onan $11,257 19 


‘““ GENERAL AGENT. . 

“The Board of Directors having, by a resolution passed at their 
last meeting, expressed the opinion that the interests of the Society 
required the immediate appointment of some individual whose duty 
it should be to direct the attention of the Church to the operations 
of the Society, and to combine its friends throughout the United 
States into proper Associations, the Executive Committee, in Decem- 
ber last, elected the Rey. George Boyd, of Philadelphia, to this 
important office. 


’ 


188.0 Report of the Board of Directors. 203 


“ MISSIONARY PAPER, 


“ At the preceding meeting of the Board, a resolution was adopted 
authorizing the Executive Committee to issue a Missionary Paper, 
at least monthly, on the principle of subscription. Deeply impressed 
with the importance of this measure, and believing it to be identified 
with the success and permanency of the institution, the Committee 
proceeded, with as little delay as possible, to carry it into execu- 
tion, and in the month of January, 1833, sent forth the first number 
of the Society’s present periodical, The Missionary Record. After 
much deliberation upon the subject, the Committee fixed the sub- 
scription price of this paper at one dollar per annum; at the same time 
making provision that a copy should be regularly forwarded, gratis, 
to each member of the Society and to such members of Auxiliary 
Associations whose contributions amount to one dollar per annum. 

“ Of the first number there were issued 4,000 copies; but the 
Committee having ascertained that it would require nearly that 
number to supply the members of Auxiliary Associations who were 
entitled to the paper, directed that a larger edition of the subse- 
quent numbers should be published. 

“The expenses connected with this undertaking will not fall far 
short of $1,400 per annum. ‘T’o meet this demand upon the Society, 
the Board are not as yet able to calculate upon more than $200 as 
arising out of the publication of the Record. 

“Jt is not for the Board to say that their efforts to obtain sub- 
scribers for this work have not been seconded by those of the Clergy, 
to whom the Society particularly looks for codperation in the 
accomplishment of all its designs. But whatever may have been 
done by those who minister at the altar with a reference to this 
object, the Board would respectfully urge upon them the importance 
of renewed and persevering exertions ; for unless a larger share of 
patronage is extended to the Record than it has already received, 
the Board will not consider themselves justified in continuing the 
publication. 


“p>LANS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SOCIETY. 


“Since the month of July, 1832, there has been no increase of 
subscribers to the proposal from Maine for improving the pecuniary 
condition of the Society by a donation of $50 per annum, for five 
years, provided ninety-nine persons would contribute an equal 
amount. 


Ee a 1 ae 


s 


204 Report of the Board of Directors. 1883, 


“* Names on the list, twenty-two. 

“Since the month of October, 1832, nineteen individuals have 
contributed $10 each, with the view of accommodating the Mission 
to Greece with suitable buildings, making the whole number on the 
list of subscribers 196. 


** GREECE. 


“The date of the last letter from the Society’s Missionaries in 
Greece, which was noticed in the preceding Aunual Report, was 
March 19, 1832. This communication was received about the 
middle of July of the same year, and informed the Board of the de- 
termination of the Rev. Messrs. Robertson and Hill so to divide the 
labors of the Mission establishment as that everything connected 
with the printing department should come under the purview of the 
former, and whatever has relation to schools or to education, under 
that of the latter. 

“Since the period above mentioned, no intelligence reached the 
Executive Committee from either of the Missionaries, until the close 
of March of the present year. At that time a letter from the Rey. 
Mr. Hill to the Committee came to hand, which was written at 
Athens, on the 21st of November, 1832. From this we learn 
that the resolutions which were adopted by the Executive Commit- 
tee during the last year, in relation to this Mission, were very con- 
solatory to the Missionaries, and had the effect of stimulating them 
to proceed with more cheerfulness and zeal.in the work to which 
they have devoted themselves. Mr. Hill states that during the last 
summer the schools had increased beyond their highest expectations 
in numbers and discipline, and the improvement of the pupils in 
religious knowledge and human learning was exceedingly gratify- 
ing. The Infant school (contained in what was once the magazine 
or cellar of Mr. Hill’s dwelling, now converted into a commodious 
chamber), consisted, in November last, of 120 scholars, all ‘neat, 
orderly, and happy.’ 

‘“‘'The impression made upon them by their daily lessons is repre- 
sented to be so vivid that they never fail to carry home to their par- 
ents some account of what they have learned, and thus the parents 
(otherwise totally deprived of the means of instruction) hear from 
their lisping infants much important religious truth. Of this Mr. 
Hill declares they have frequent proofs from the mouths of the par- 
ents themselves. The notice which this department has attracted 


= ak de 


- 133, Report of the Board of Directors. 205 


from all strangers and the Athenians is, in the language of Mr. H., 
matter of astonishment. Visitors throng to see it every day, and 
blessings innumerable are pronounced upon their benefactors. 

“In the principal elementary school for girls (which is accommo- 
dated in the largest room of Mr. Hill’s house) there are about 70 
who attend regularly. Here are taught the Scriptures and whatever 
is taught in similar schools in America. After the school is opened 
with prayer and the reading of the Scriptures, a portion of the pupils 
are conducted to another room, and another portion to the hall or 
piazza, this being the only place which remains for their use. Thus 
there are three departments of larger girls, only one of which is, 
properly speaking, the elementary school. The second consists of 
such as have to work hard for their daily bread, and who, it is thought 
best, should be employed in handy-work more than the others. The 
third department consists of those who arc destined (the Mission- 
aries hope) to become the future teachers of schools. In this class 
are found thirty who give evidence that the labor which has been 
bestowed upon them has not been in vain. 

“The Hellenic school (for. boys), which was commenced in 
August, 1831, continues in successful operation under the excellent 
teacher, Stephanos. The studies pursued in this department are 
Jacobs’s Greek Reader, Xenophon’s Memorabilia, the Apologia of 
Socrates, by Plato, the Krito of Plato, some of the orations of 
Demosthenes, and the Septuagint and New Testament. 

“Once a week Mr. Hill meets the whole of the boys for the study 
of the Septuagint, which they translate into Modern Greek, and 
which he then explains to them at large. This exercise, he says, af: 
fords him an excellent opportunity of preaching the Gospel to an 
attentive and inquiring company of young men, while he endeavors 
to make it interesting to them by introducing remarks on a variety 
of subjects growing out of the passages under consideration. 

“Three times a week Mr. Hill instructs a class taken from the 
scholars of this school, with a few who do not belong to the school. 
And on Wednesday afternoon of every week, he meets the female 
school to explain the Gospel. Two hours also of the Sunday morn- 
ing are*occupied in the same manner, on which occasion a number 
of adults, parents or other relatives of the children, and sometimes 
strangers, attend. 

“ Formerly it was the practice of the Missionaries on the Lord’s 
day to explain only the Gospel of the day. In the place of this ex- 


206 Report of the Board of Directors. 1838, 


ercise they now explain the Scriptures in course, and thus all the 
doctrines and precepts of the Gospel, with the history of our Divine 
Lord, are brought before the audience in order, and a stock of di- 
vine knowledge imparted, which is calculated to make them wise 
unto salvation. | 

_ Tn the same letter Mr. Hill represents to the Committee the abso- 
lute necessity the Missionaries are under of commencing the erection 
of houses for schools. Mr. Hill’s dwelling, which at present con- 
tains all the schools, has been found to be altogether insufficient to 
accommodate the numbers who daily apply for admission. The Hel- — 
lenic school is so crowded that a portion of the boys are obliged to 
remain outside while the others are receiving their lessons—while 
no place’ can be found at all for a Lancasterian school for boys, 
which of all things else is the most desirable in Athens. 

“ But in addition to the very important consideration which the 
want of room presents, economy, in the opinion of the Missionaries, 
requires that the buildings should be provided without delay. For 
the interest of the sum that would provide an establishment suffi- 
ciently extensive to contain all the schools at present existing or 
contemplated, would be considerably less than the rent which is 
paid for Mr. Hill’s residence. Under these considerations, Mr. H., 
in the last autumn, and with the approbation of Mr. Robertson, 
made preparations for building. Encouraged by private conversa- 
tions with some of the primates of the city, he made applications to 
the magistrates for the cession of what was formerly the public 
school of Athens, a large enclosure in the heart of the city, now 
however in ruins. The primates immediately granted his request, 
and also appointed a committee to confer with Mr. Hill, and enter 
into an agreement which would be confirmed by the city. This has 
been effected to their mutual satisfaction, and unanimously ratified 
by the municipal authority. On this site Mr Hill intends hereafter 
to erect the edifice for the boys’ school, and as there are materials 
on the ground, he says that this undertaking will be attended with 
but little expense. 

“But (Mr. Hill informs the Committee) he finds it necessary, 
first, to build a house for the infant school and the girls? school 
altogether apart from the boys’ school, and has accordingly pur- 
chased for this purpose a suitable lot, only twenty feet from the four 
beautiful Doric columns which still adorn the site of the ancient 
Agora, where Paul ‘ disputed daily’ with the philosophers of Athens. 


1833. Report of the Board of Directors. 207 


For this site Mr. Hill is to pay $50 per annum, redeemable by the 
payment of the capital ($600) when he will. Here it was his inten- 
tion, when he wrote to the Committee, to commence building im- 
mediately ; but should defer the Lancasterian school until the spring. 
The cost of the whole will not, in the opinion of Mr Hill, exceed 
$2,000. 

“The letter containing the above information, having been read 
before the Executive Committee, the following resolutions were 
unanimously adopted : 


“<«Resolved, That the Executive Committee fully approve the steps which 
their Missionaries in Greece have taken in regard to the buildings for the ac- 
commodation of the Mission, and assure them that they will make every effort 
to satisfy the necessary demands for funds. 

««Resolucd, That the Sccretary be requested to publish the facts contained 
in the letter of Mr. Hill, and call the attention of the Church to making up im- 
mediately the sum required.’ 


“The following extract from the Moniteur Grec, a newspaper 
published at Nauplie, the seat of the Greek Gover nment, will serve 
as a confirmation of the statements of the Recetas respecting 
the favorable sentiments entertained by the Greeks with regard to 
the operations of the Society in their country: 


««« Among the numerous benefits which Greece has received from the Chris- 
tian inhabitants of the other hemisphere, we must count the establishment of 
schools in her territory. We particularly distinguish those under the direc- 
tion of the Rev. Messrs. Robertson and Hill, who continue, by their love for 
their neighbors, to prove themselves worthy of their high calling. The result 
of their labors has been exhibited at a public examination, which the Bishop of 
Tilanti, the Consuls of foreign powers residing at Athens, and a number of 
Athenians and strangers of distinction, were pleased to honor with their pres- 
ence.’ 


“‘ Another evidence of the high consideration in which the Mis- 
sion is held in Greece, is furnished by the annexed portion of a let- 
ter from one of the individuals connected with it: 


«While at Napoli, I had the pleasure of seeing frequently, and conversing 
with Rizos Mauvocordato, Tricoupi, and the other ministers. [had an opportuni- 
ty of meeting with many of the most remarkable men of the revolution—Miau- 
lis, Mauromicheelis, Ypsilanti, Conduriotto, etc. Both the Government paper, 
and the Minerva, have taken very honorable notice of the Missionary establish- 
ment. The Minister of State for Religion and Education has addressed me a 
letter of thanks on the part of the Government.’ 


208 Report of the Board of Directors. yp iages. 


‘© AFRICA. 


“Tn the opinion of the Board, there are few portions of the 
earth which present a stronger claim upon Christian sympathy and 
exertion than heathen Africa. Under the influence of this sentiment, 
the Board have diligently exerted themselves to extend the bless- 
ings of civilization and Christianity to this almost savage and much 
neglected land. But, notwithstanding the various plans which have 
been devised, the labor bestowed, and the money expended in refer- 
ence to this object, nothing has as yet been accomplished that is 
calculated to cheer the hearts of the friends of this enterprise. 

“To those who are accustomed to weigh things only in the bal- 
ance of worldly wisdom, circumstances such as these might well be 
regarded as indicative of the hopelessness of the cause. But though 
often disappointed in their hopes, and defeated in their calculations, 
the Board do not despair of ultimate success. They are not insensi- 
ble to the fact that glorious things have been spoken by the Al- 
mighty, with respect to Ethiopia, and that however degraded at 
present may be the condition of Afric’s sons and daughters, a time 
must arrive when, in accordance with the inspired prediction, they 
‘shall cast away their idols to the moles and the bats,’ and take an 
exalted stand among the nations of the globe. And do not the re- 
cent discoveries on that Continent authorize us to believe that the 
period is at hand when these promises of Heaven will be fulfilled ? 
Who can reflect on the fact that the course and termination of the 
Niger have been at length satisfactorily ascertained, and the power 
of steam transferred to the bosom of its meandering waters, and not 
yield to the conviction that the set time to favor Africa has indeed 
now come? 

“Ifa Mission to that benighted land were not, by the General 
Convention of 1826, regarded in the light of an Utopian scheme, 
and if a vigorous effort in reference to its benefit, were warmly 
urged by that body upon the consideration of the Society, how 
. much have recent events enhanced the probable success of such an 
undertaking, and how much louder is the call upon the Church to 
enter this new and highly interesting field ? 

“Js a question raised respecting the means to be employed in 
elevating Africa from her present abject state, and extending over 
her widely spread continent the kingdom of our Saviour Jesus 
Christ? In the judgment of the Board, such a revolution can only 


a 


1838. Leeport of the Board of Directors. 209 


be effected by the instrumentality of intelligent, discreet, and well- 
educated Missionaries, whose souls are fired with heavenly love and 
zeal, 

“ Does the inquiry meet us, Where are the individuals of this de- 
scription, who are disposed to engage in a service so arduous and 
self-denying; and even should they be obtained, where are the 
means to sustain them in the work? Our reply is, ‘With God 
nothing is impossible;’ and if the accomplishment of His will de- 
mand the interposition of such an agency, neither the men nor the 
funds will be wanting. 

“But the Board will not enlarge any further upon this point. 
They have thrown out these remarks with the hope of drawing the 
attention of the Church to this subject, and with a view of speedily 
settling the question proposed in a former report ; ‘ Cannot this Socie- 
ty gather from among the colored population of the country in which 
we live, some whose hearts are animated with holy benevolence, and 
prepare them for the sublime enterprise of carrying the blessings of 
the Gospel to the homes of their forefathers, and transforming those 
barren wilds into a garden of the Lord, luxuriant in fragrance and 
beauty ?, 

“The Board have thus traced the several steps of the Society’s 
proceedings during the preceding seven months; and they indulge 
the hope that, from the statements which have been presented, it 
will appear that something at least has been done toward the hasten- 
ing of that period when the ‘wilderness and the solitary place shall 
be glad, and the desert rejoice, and blossom ag the rose.’ 

“Such considerations certainly are calculated to inspire us with 
deep and heartfelt gratitude to that Almighty Being who has con- 
descended to employ us as instruments in prosecuting His gracious 
designs, and to stimulate us to greater diligence in forwarding the 
purposes of infinite goodness. Let us not be satisfied then, unless 
this effect be produced. While we are thankful for what has al- 
ready been accomplished, let our exertions be increased. Let every 
success be regarded as only pledging us to renewed efforts. And 
let us proceed from one good work to another, in this labor of love, 
until it shall be seen and known of all men that this Institution has 
been appointed by Heaven to sustain an important part in effectuat- 
ing that divine decree; ‘ All the ends of the world shall remember 
and turn unto the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nations shall 
worship before Thee.’ ” 

14 


210 Leeport of the General Agent. 1880, 


To the foregoing Report of the Board of Directors is ap- 
pended a Report of the General Agent, the Rev. George Boyd, 
to the Executive Committee. 

We give a portion of his Report, as follows: 


“That the favor of the whole Church might be secured to the 
Society, and the way prepared for its future operations, the General 
Agent, at an early period, took the liberty of writing to each of the 
Right Rev. Bishops of the Church, and of requesting from them 
a commendatory letter. That such a letter would be furnished 
no doubt was entertained, inasmuch as there had been an entire 
concurrence of the House of Bishops, at several times expressed, 
upon the principles and proceedings of the Society. Answers have 
been received from the Right Rev. Bishop Bowen, the Right Rey. — 
Bishop Hopkins, the Right Rev. Bishop Smith, the Right Rey. 
Bishop McIlvaine, and the Right Rey. Bishop Doane, and are here 
inserted. 


“«REV. AND DEAR Srr,—Your communication, dated at New York, March 
25th, was received at my house whenI was absent on official duty. On the eve 
of an excursion of similar duty, in another portion of the Diocese, after two 
days spent at home, I hasten to say to you, that the agency with which you 
have been charged by the Executive Committée of the Domestic and Foreign 
Missionary Society of our Church, has my entire approbation, and my hearty 
wishes for its prosperity. I trust that some success will attend it in this 
Diocese; although I am not sanguine in the expectation that that some will 
amount to much. All such enterprises of Christian zeal, find in the mind of 
our community, at present, but little of the sensibility which they are well 
entitled to awaken. I shall be sincerely rejoiccd that you should find the case 


otherwise. 
“*T am, Rev. and dear sir, 


“« Affectionately your friend and brother, 
“«“N. BOWEN. 
“«REv. GEO. BoyD.’ 

“<« HARTFORD, May 9, 1833. 
“«REvV, AND DEAR Srr,—Your letter of the 20th of March, forwarded by the 
Rev. Mr. Lucas, did not reach me till this morning. I regret this delay the 
more, as I issued a Pastoral Letter, a few days ago, in relation to the Missionary 
operations of this Diocese, in which I should have referred to your plan of a 
general society for the ‘ Promotion of Christianity.’ Whenever you visit this 
Tiocese, in the course of your agency, you may count on my decided support,— 
and if your plan shall be thought most efficient to the Society you represent, I 

shall cheerfully concur in it. 3 
“*T remain, Rey. and dear sir, 
«“¢ Your friend and brother, 
“« Rev, GEO. BoyD,’ «<TC, BROWNELL. 


- 1838, Leport of the General Agent. . 211 


** BURLINGTON, VT., April 23, 1833. 

“« REV. AND DEAR BROTHER,—Your letter dated March 23d, from New York, 
was not received until within three days past, on account of my absence from 
home. On the subject of your agency, you know my views and feelings of old, 
and it it is only necessary for me to say that they have suffered no alteration. 
You have my hearty consent and approbation, so far as you may think them im- 
portant to your success in my Diocese, although the peculiar form in which it 
may be thought expedient to organize the contributors to the Missionary enter- 
prise is a question with which I do not intend to interfere, beyond the boundaries 
of my own parish. I have long been a little more than sceptical as to the 
propriety of any subdivision in the good old organization already made to our 
hand, in the. parochial form itself; and I have seen no good produced by the 
modern machinery of parish societies, which I do not know by my own expe- 
rience to have been perfectly practicable, nay more practicable, without it. In 
my parish, therefore, we will do what we can for your object in the old-fash- 
ioned way ; and the other parishes of my Diocese can do as they and you shall 
deem most expedient. 

««Vest your visit should occur when I might be absent from home, it will 
be well to give me sufficient notice of the time. It will give us all sincere 
pleasure to see you. | 

“« With kind regard to Mrs. B. and your family, 

«* Your affectionate friend, and brother in the Lord, 
“«JOHN H. HOPKINS. 

«¢« Rev. Gro. Boyp.’ 


“* BROOKLYN, April 24, 1833. 

“ REY. AND DEAR Srr,—Most heartily do I wish you prosperity in the work 
you have undertaken, as Agent of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society. 
Believing that the Missionary work,as embracing the whole field (in other words, 
the whole world, without distinction of foreign or domestic, except for conven- 
‘ience of speech) is neither more nor less than the simple work of the Christian 
ministry and the whole Christian Church, and consequently that the spirit of 
Missions, in its greatest freeness and its widest embrace, is the simple spirit of 
the Gospel, and ought to fill the hearts of all who call themselves Christians, 
I believe that a more important effort could not be made than that of endeavor- 
ing to unite all our congregations and pastors in strenuous exertions for the 
Missionary cause. 

«<«T have no fear that an increase of zeal for Missions in foreign portions of 
' the one field would diminish our supplies for wants nearer at hand. The 
Christian Church has money and men enough for the whole. Nothing is 
wanting but the good will to put both to the Master’s use. Whatever has a 
tendency to awaken an enlarged benevolence, and a spirit of holy self-denial 
in all parts of the Church, will increase the supply of both men and money for 
the wants of all parts of the world. All experience testifies that such benev- 
olence and such self-denial are the direct consequence of that system of effort 
which holds out to the view of the people of God not one part of the world, 
to the exclusion of the rest, as claiming their labors; not home as standing 


212 Report of the General Agent. 1883. 


in the way of abroad ; not foreign lands as requiring us to neglect the wants 
of our own wilderness—but the world, as the field—the boundaries of the 
world as the only limits to which the Church is authorized to confine its love or 
its exertions. 

“« Whatever can be done in the Diocese committed to my charge you are 
affectionately invited to attempt. The door is affectionately opened. I trust, 
should you enter therein, every pastor would do all in his power to further 
your agency. May the Lord of the harvest, in all your efforts, give you a 
precious increase! 

“* Yours, very affectionately, 
«°C, P. McILVAINE. 

“* Rev. Geo, Boyp.’ 


“* LEXINGTON, April 3, 1833. 

«« The interest of many years in Missionary operations has taught me that 
the formation of Associations, and the exertions of regular agents, are indis- 
pensable to large success. Will not the friends of Missions in our beloved 
Church, then, give their countenance and cordial support to the Rev. Mr. 
Boyd, the constituted Agent of our Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society ? 
Will not the clergy welcome him in their parishes, and the laity in their 
dwellings, and bid him “God speed?” Can they bid him depart without some 
substantial proof of their interest in that cause, which, above all others, is 
emphatically the cause of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ? 

“« Hor my own part, I cannot refrain from expressing my fervent gratitude 
to God for the separation of my dear brother to this important work; and offer- 
ing my continual prayers that God may bless him with abundant success. 

«*B, B. SMITH. 


“To all the friends of Missions in the 
P, E. Church in the U.8.’ 


“* Boston, April 6, 1833. 
“*REvV, AND DEAR Str,—Absence from home and a very great pressure of 
business growing out of my removal to New Jersey have prevented an earlier 
acknowledgment of your favor of the 22d ult. I most cordially welcome you 
as Agent of the Society to the Diocese of New Jersey. I approve your 
plan, as well as the object at which it aims, and will give you my most cordial 
codperation in its promotion. It was my purpose to bring the Missionary enter- 
prise very distinctly before the Convention, and to urge a complete Diocesan 
organization on the very principle you suggest. Now can you not be present 
at Camden on the 29th May? If you can, we can at once complete the arrange- 
ment, If you cannot, I will give you any aid which may be needed by letter 
to the clergy ; but I advise that nothing be attempted until after the Con- 
vention. 
“*Very faithfully, your friend and brother, 
“<G@, W. DOANE,’” 


We add the following interesting letter, addressed to the 
General Agent by E. A. Newton, Esq., of Pittsfield, Mass. : 


1838. Treasurer's Report. 213 


“New York, May 8, 1833. 

“REV. AND DEAR Sir,—Everything connected with the history and 
conduct of Bishop White is a subject of great interest to the Church in this 
country, and is so regarded. Among a thousand other things, the fact that 
after having laid the foundation-stone of our structure (humbly speaking) and 
borne us along for more than half a century by his great wisdom, prudence, and 
industry, to our present flourishing condition, through periods of great trial, 
difficulty, and discouragement. he should be found, at his advanced age, and in 
his station (which, it might be supposed, would exempt him from such a bur- 
then) pledging his private credit for the support of the Missionary Institution 
of the Church, is to my mind a beautiful evidence of his untiring devotedness 
to her interests, and presents, I conceive, a favorable opportunity of calling 
forth an expression of the gratitude of her members toward him, and ina 
manner that cannot but be acceptable, because promotive of that great object 
for which he has evinced such regard. I therefore suggest the propriety of 
your calling on the lay members of the Church to raise at once an amount 
adequate to the special purpose of relieving the Society, and preventing the 
recurrence of a like act. FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS, I understand, is the 
amount involved, and surely there can be found FORTY men in the Church who 
will combine to glorify God by contributing to his service, and to honor their 
venerable Bishop by making him the instrument in so good a cause. 

“Tf such a measure should be considered unexceptionable and proper, I will 
cheerfully and thankfully make one of the number; and under the express 
understanding, that it is to be in addition to the ordinary and regular contri- 
butions to the Society. 

“J am, very respectfully, dear sir, 
“ Your friend and servant, 
“EDWARD A. NEWTON. 

“To the REV. GEORGE Boyp, 

General Agent of the Dom. and For. Miss. Society.” 


TREASURER’S REPORT. 


Abstract of Receipts from October 18, 1832, to May 18, 1833—Seven Monthe. 


Bar General, Mission Account, .... 0% vacc or ccosns savence $3,445 69 
Domestic Mission Account....... ea Sate a agi erie nie e's 1,822 71 
Foreign Mission Account...,.......-.4- Par Sen 75 25 
PEPe MP OLINeGN ACCOUUL, oo csc ins ss gy edie ns beeges oe 4,803 34 
tireen Bay Mission Account .............2cceceeae- 8,305 12 
Florida Mission Account....... 02.2... .000c. cee: ss 120 00 

$13,572 11 

Balance, October 18, 1832. .......... SE biel a0 hon ee a RO 215 75 

Pe eememeeot Permanent Fund; . ..4..+ - sissies dacy ted © ba ea 08 2,620 36 


As stated in Report of the Board.................0- ee PS $16,408 22 


Ula. Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 1834. 
Balances of Account, May 18, 1838. 
Dr. Cr. 

Domestic Mission Account............... Weve nee $1,608 '70 
Green’ Bay" Mission "Accountin (Wien atch rs es emis eee 7,421 96 
Hlorida ‘Mission Accounts: Views s cee bes sos eee 940 02 
Permanent: Funds). \Jreay eee ees ool cs cee eee 10 386 
General ‘Mission Account ite.aeieere, «so; see ee $10,482 39 
Foreign’ Mission ‘Actoumti iano eematee tere ee 6 oad eee 1,478 61 
Gréek:Mission A ceountsUys ren enrett eens cs se aaa 1,290 80 
Liibéria ‘Mission Account/2, eos ee eae eee 68 67 
Cashion’ Hand $2008 Gat Gee ies eine ties oe es 3,009 43 

$13,320 47 $18,320 47 


ANNUAL MEETING, 1834. 


A Stated Meeting of the Board of Directors was held at the 
Society’s room, Philadelphia, Tuesday, May 18, 1834, at ten 
o’clock A.M. : 

Present, The Right Rev. Bishops White, H. U. Onderdonk, 
DB. T. Onderdonk, and Doane; the Rev. Drs. Hawks, DeLancey, 
Henshaw, Milnor, Mead, and Tyng; the Rev. Messrs. More- 
house, Clay, G. A. Smith, Pardee, Boyd, Cutler, R. A. Hender- | 
son, W. Jackson, Presstman, and Rodney; Messrs. J. C. Biddle, 
C. Wheeler, L. R. Ashhurst, E. A. Newton, and T. Robins. 

Prayers were offered by the Right Rev. President. 

The Secretary being absent, on account of the severe illness 
of his father, the Rev. Mr. Boyd was appointed Secretary pro 
tem, 

On motion of the Rev. Dr. Tyng, it was 


“Resolved, That.it be one of the standing rules of this Board of 
Directors, that clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church, not 
members of the Board, candidates for orders, theological students, 
and wardens and vestrymen of the Episcopal Churches, be invited 
to attend the meetings of the Board of Directors.” 


On motion of Bishop Doane, it was 


“Tesolved, That the above standing rule be published in some 
of the daily papers.” 


1834, Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 215 


The Report of the Executive Committee was submitted and 


| read, and referred to a Committee, consisting of Drs. Milnor and 


Pe achaw. and the Rev. Mr. Cutler, to prepare from it the Annual 
Report of the Board of Directors. 

The Treasurer presented his Annual (een which was 
referred to a Committee, consisting of Messrs. Wheeler and 
Newton, and the Rev. Dr. Hawks. 

The Rev. Messrs. Rodney, Presstman, and Jackson were 
appointed a Committee to examine the records, books, and papers 
of the Society. 

The Rev. Drs. Henshaw and Milnor, and the Rev. Messrs. 
Presstman, Boyd, Clay, and Rodney were appointed a Committee 
to nominate persons to serve as an Executive Committee for the 
ensuing year. 

The Right. Rey. Bishops B. T. Onderdonk and Doane, the 
Rev. Dr. Tyng, the Rev. Messrs. Clay and Rodney, and E. A. 
Newton, Esq., were appointed a Committee on the “ Contingent 
Expenses” of the Society. 

The Rey. Drs. Mead and DeLancey, and the Rev. Mr. More. 
house were appointed a Committee on Unfinished Business. 

The subject of the “General Agency” was referred to the 
Committee on Contingent Expenses. 

Adjourned to four p.m. 


Turspay, Jay 13—4 p.m. 

Board met pursuant to adjournment. 

The Secretary pro tem. was, by resolution, directed to prepare 
an abstract of the Annual Report, to be read at the Missionary 
meeting to-morrow evening. 

The Committee appointed to examine the records, books, and 
papers of the Society reported that they had discharged that duty, 
and found that the records and accounts are neatly and accurately 
kept, and the books and pamphlets judiciously arranged for 
reference. 

The Committee on Unfinished Business reported that there 
did not appear on the Journal any unfinished business which has 
not been already referred to committees during the sitting of the 
Board this morning. 


216 Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 1834. 


The Committee on the Treasurer’s Accounts reported that 
they had performed that duty, and having inspected the entries 
and vouchers, found the same perfectly correct. 

The Right Rev. Bishop Doane, on behalf of the Committee 
appointed at the meeting in 1833, on ‘“ Missions in Africa,” 
reported as follows: 


“The Committee to whom was referred the consideration of 
Missions in Africa respectfully report: That they deem it proper 
for the present to postpone, with the permission of the Board, that 
part of the trust committed to them which has reference to the 
establishment of Missionary Stations in such parts of Africa as are 
not at present the subjects of colonization. 

“Having reason to believe that persons willing and well fitted 
to undertake that enterprise may now be found, they recommend 
the appointment, as soon as practicable, of two Missionaries to 
proceed to the Colony of Liberia, not only in that capacity, but as 
agents of the Board, to explore the ground, to report as to its wants 
and capabilities, and generally to organize, as far as may be in their 
power, the institutions of the Church, and give efficiency to its 
operations. ‘The Committee being credibly informed that a colored 
man of eminent qualifications for the office of the Ministry, and 
desirous to be admitted to it, is now, or soon to be, resident at Cape 
Palmas, the site selected by the Maryland Colonization Society, 
would recommend that the Board make inquiry in regard to him, 
and with a view of procuring his admission to orders, should it be 
found that he is of suitable character, acquirements, and disposi- 
tions. 

“The Committee are of opinion that, while the duty and 
advantage of affording immediate encouragement to African Mis- 
sions cannot be too strongly pressed on the Church, the sure and 
permanent spiritual improvement of that deserted land would be 
greatly promoted by the establishment there of the Church, com- 
pletely organized, and of institutions under the supervision of her 
own Episcopacy for the education for the Ministry of the children of 
her own soil. To the accomplishment of this great object they 
earnestly recommend the direction of the best energies of the 
Church, and the pouring out of continual prayers to the Divine 
source of light and truth for His blessing on the work. 

“'The Committee propose the following resolutions : 


1834. Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 217 


“Tesolwed, That the subject of Missions to Africa be earnestly 
commended to the Church. 

“Teesolved, That the Executive Committee be instructed to 
appoint, with all convenient speed, two suitable Missionaries to 
proceed to Africa, and after performing such duties as may be 
assigned to them as Agents of the Society, to establish themselves 
at such points as, in their judgment, with the approbation of the 
Executive Committee, may be deemed expedient. 

“May, 13, 1834, G. W. Doann, Chairman.” 


Mr. E. A. Newton offered the following resolutions, which, 
at his request, were laid on the table until to-morrow : 


“Resolved, That this Board will establish a Mission in China, 
Cochin China, Siam, or Burmah, as soon as a suitable Missionary or 
Missionaries can be found to oceupy such station. 

“Resolved, That the Executive Committee be instructed to carry 
this resolution into effect.” 


The Right Rev. B. T. Onderdonk presented the following 
report: 


“The Committee to whom was referred the subject of the con- 
tingent expenses of the Society, and that of the employment of a 
General Agent, beg leave respectfully to report: That, in their 
opinion, no reduction can, with propriety, be made in the ordinary 
expenses of the Society; but, on the contrary, that an increase of 
those expenses, by the appointment of an efficient General Agent, 
would greatly tend to the increase of the pecuniary means of the 
Society’s usefulness. 

“On the subject of the appointment of such a functionary, the 
Committee, previously to submitting certain resolutions, beg leave 
to refer the Board to a report * on the same subject, made to the 


* The following is the report referred to: 

“The Committee to whom was intrusted the subject of the General Agency 
of the Society would report, that having attentively considered this important 
point in the operations of the Society: They have arrived unitedly at the con- 
clusion that a new organization in this department is indispensable to the 
welfare of the Society ; and as such a change might be deemed inexpedient to 
be made by the Executive Committee ; they would propose that the considera- 
tion of it be referred to the Board of Directors at their next annual meeting 


218 Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 1884, 


Executive Committee by a sub-committee of that body, on the 23d 
of December last; the sentiments contained in which your Com- 
mittee have no hesitation in adopting as their own, and now respect- 
fully report for the consideration of the Board the following resolu- 
tions : | 

“1, Resolved, That there be appointed, until the next meeting 
of the Society, a General Agent, whose duty it shall be, in addition 
to other matters properly belonging to his office, or from time to 
time assigned to him, to be the editor of Zhe Missionary Record, 


in May, under the recommendation of the Executive Committee to them, to 
consider and act upon the same. 

“The chief deficiency in past operations seems to arise from a separation of 
the offices of General Agent and Corresponding Secretary. The most important 
instruments of agency must always be the correspondence of the Secretary, by 
which alone many Associations might be formed and cherished, and the Clergy 
might be excited to act more generally in the cause, and the editing of the 
publications of the Society, by which the general interest of the Church must 
be gained for the objects which they ought to present. Whoever has posses- 
sion of these two instruments of usefulness is in fact the General Agent of 
the Society. In regard to personal travelling, it can never be for the interest 
of the Society that an officer, with so high a compensation as has been pro- 
posed heretofore for the General Agent, should be occupied in visiting the 
separate parishes of the Church. The amount of collections so made must 
always be in an inadequate proportion to the cost of collecting, and only transi- 
tory in the relief which they afford. The great want of the Society is an 
effective organization of Associations throughout the Church. And the per- 
sonal influence of the Agent in constituting these can be much more widely 
exercised by correspondence than by visiting. The meetings of Diocesan Con- 
ventions, and the anniversaries of the larger Auxiliaries of the Society, would 
alone, as a general rule, demand his personal attendance. The Committee 
believe it indispensable that the General Agent and Corresponding Secretary 
of the Society should be a single officer, to the effectual and permanent opera- 
tions of the Society ; and that the duties of the Recording Secretary should be 
kept in another department of the Society’s operations, or discharged by an 
assistant under his direction. This system alone, in their opinion, would give 
life and vigor to the prosecution of the work which God has committed to the 
Society. They are opposed, therefore, to the appointment of any person tem- 
porarily as the General Agent of the Society. And as they trust the affairs of 
the Society can be kept in a safe state until the meeting of the Board of 
Directors, they would not recommend any change in anticipation of that meet- 
ing. But that a full and informed meeting may be held at that time, they 
would recommend that the Directors be individually notified, when summoned 
to attend the approaching meeting, that this subject will be suggested for their 
decision, and they be urged to an attendance for this purpose.” 


1954. Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 219 


and to conduct the correspondence of the Society, and that he be 
paid a salary not exceeding two thousand dollars per annum. 

“2. Resolved, That the salary of two hundred doilars per 
annum heretofore appropriated to the Secretary of the Society, as 
editor of Zhe Missionary Record, be withdrawn, in consideration 
of the arrangements provided by the above resolution for the future 
conducting of that work. 

“3. Resolved, That the Executive Committee be authorized to 
employ a clerk, at a salary not exceeding three hundred dollars, to 
assist the Treasurer and Agent in the duties of their respective 
offices. 

“ By order of the Committee, 
“Bens. T. OnpERDONK, Chairman.” 


On motion of the Rev. Dr. DeLancey, it was 


“Resolved, That the Report of the Committee on Contingent 
Expenses be the order of the day to-morrow at eleven o’clock.” 


The Right Rev. Bishop B. T. Onderdonk moved a recon- 
sideration, and having afterward withdrawn his motion, it was 
renewed by the Rev. Mr. Cutler, and, while under discussion, 
the Board adjourned until ten o’clock a.m., to-morrow. 


Wennespay, May 14, 1834—10 o’clock a.m. 

The Board met pursuant to adjournment. 

Present, The Right Rev. William White, the Right Rev. 
H. U. Onderdonk, the Right Rev. G. W. Doane; the Rev. Drs. 
Hawks, Tyng, DeLancey, Henshaw, Milnor, and Mead; the Rey. 
Messrs. Morehouse, Smith, Pardee, Allen, Boyd, Cutler, Hender- 
son, Jackson, and Rodney; Messrs. Biddle, Wheeler, Ashhurst, 
Newton, and Robins. 

After prayers by the Right Rev. President, the Minutes were 
read and approved. | 

The Rev. Dr. Milnor presented:the following Report, which 
was adopted : 3 


“The Committee appointed to prepare the Annual Report of the 
Board of Directors respectfully report: That they recommend the 
adoption of the Report of the Executive Committee read yesterday, 
with such alterations in the phraseology as are necessary to adapt 


220 Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 1884, 


it to that purpose as the Report of this Board, with the exception 
of a part of the details of the Green Bay Mission, and of the claims 
of this Society on the Government of the United States, and of the 
concluding observations, which they have marked as proper to be 
omitted. 

“They also recommend that the list of new Auxiliaries, and of 
donations, be annexed with the Treasurer’s Account as an Appendix, 
and that a Committee of two members of this Board, resident in 
Philadelphia, be appointed to make such changes in the language 
as may be necessary, and to prepare the Report for publication. 

“James Mitnor, Chairman.” 


On motion of the Rev. Dr. Milnor, it was 


“Resolved, That the Committee proposed in the foregoing 
Report be now appointed.” 


Messrs. Wheeler and Boyd were appointed. 
The Rev. Dr. Henshaw presented the following Report, which — 
was, on motion, adopted: 


“The Committee appointed to nominate suitable persons to serve 
on the Executive Committee for the ensuing year beg leave to 
nominate for reélection all the present members of the Committee, 
Viz.) 


Rev. G. T. Bedell, p.p., Mr. C. Wheeler, 
S. H. Tyng, p.p., L. R. Ashhurst, 
George Boyd, J. C. Biddle, 
George A. Smith, J. Lex, 
J. W. James, Dr. C. Morris, 
Mr. P. H.. Nicklin, J. Wiltbank, 


66 1 @ hd eo 
Signed, by order, 
r “J. P. K. Hensnaw, Chairman.” 


On motion of Dr. Milnor, the resolutions offered yesterday 
by Mr. Newton were taken up for consideration. 

Dr. Milnor moved that the first resolution be amended so as 
to apply to “ China” alone. 

While this was being discussed, it being eleven o’clock, the 
hour fixed for the consideration of the Report of the Committee 


1884, Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 291 


on Contingent Expenses, that was called up and read, when, on a 
motion being made to adopt the first resolution, Mr. Boyd moved, 
as an amendment, to refer the whole subject to the next meeting 
of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society. 

Mr. Wheeler moved that Mr. Boyd’s motion be postponed, in 
order to introduce a resolution to refer the matter to the Execu- 
tive Committee, which was rejected. 

The question recurring on Mr. Boyd’s motion, it was adopted. 

The Right Rev. Bishop Doane offered the following resolu- 
tions, which were adopted unanimously : 


“That in the sense of this Board it is essential to the full and 
proper influence of the Society that a more efficient organization of 
its executive department be adopted. 

“Resolved, 'That the Report and Resolutions presented to this 
Board by the Committee on this subject contain in their general 
purport the outlines of a plan which it is desirable should be put in 
operation. 

“Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to draw up a memc- 
rial, setting forth more fully and enforcing the views contained in 
the Report and Resolutions referred to, to be addressed to the mem- 
bers of the Society and the Church at large, and printed in the pro- 
ceedings of the Board.” 


The Right Rev. Bishop Doane, the Rev. Dr. Tyng, and the 
Rey. Dr. Hawks were appointed on this Committee. 
On motion of the Rev. Dr. Hawks, it was 


“ Resolved, That the thanks of this Board be tendered to Mr. 
Thomas Robins for his faithful and valuable services as Treasurer 
during the past year.” 


On motion of the Rev. Dr. Milnor, the Board adjourned until 
five o’clock p.m. 


Wenpnespay, May 14, 1834—5 o’clock p.m. 
The Board met pursuant to adjournment. 
Present, The Right Rev. William White, the Right Rev. 
H. U. Onderdonk, the Right Rev. B. T. Onderdonk, the Right 
Rev. G. W. Doane; the Rev. Drs. Hawks, Tyng, Milnor, Hen- 


DOD ee Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 1884. 


shaw, DeLancey; the Rev. Messrs. Morehouse, Smith, Pardee, 
Allen, Boyd, Cutler, Henderson, Jackson, Rodney; and Messrs. 


Biddle, Wheeler, Morris, Ashhurst, Newton, and Robins. 
On motion of Dr. DeLancey, it was 


“Resolved, That the persons nominated by the Committee 
appointed for that purpose be and are hereby elected members 
of the Executive Committee for the ensuing year.” 


The first resolution submitted by Mr. Newton being called 
_ up for consideration, the Rev. Dr. Milnor moved, as an amend- 
ment, the omission of all the names of places therein, except 
China, which was adopted. 

On motion, the resolution as amended was adopted.* 


* The compiler of this work regards it as a precious privilege here to 
record the following tribute to the memory of Augustus Foster Lyde, whose 
short life was full of beauty—who gave up his whole being to the service of 
God our Saviour, and moreover, whose consecration, by every act that was 
possible to himself, to the cause of MISSIONS IN CHINA, was, by God’s blessing, 
the beginning of that work, which, under the lamented Bishop Boone, and his 
faithful and devoted snecessor, Bishop C. M. Williams, has grown into the 
noble proportions which it now presents. : 


REV. AUGUSTUS FOSTER LYDE. 


The following isa part of an introduction to a small volume of poems, 
called “ Buds of Spring,’ written by Mr. Lyde, and published after his death. 
The name of the person whose loving hand penned this introduction does not 
appear on the title-page of the book; we have, however, asked the privilege of 
recording it here; it is that of Bishop Vail, of Kansas, 


“The Rev. Augustus Foster Lyde was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, 
February 4, 1813, where in early life he was piously educated, under the 
pastoral and academical charge of the Rev. Dr. Empie. 

“From very infancy he manifested a strong and abiding sense of religious 
obligation, and was peculiarly fond of his Bible. As illustrative of this, when 
at the age of six years he was learning the beginning of the fifth chapter of 
St. Matthew’s Gospel, which had been assigned him as a Sunday-school lesson, 
he declared that the chapter was too good to be broken, and would not leave 
it till the whole was committed to memory. 

“At the early age of fourteen he was admitted . a member of the Sopho- 
more class in Washington (now Trinity) College, Hartford, Conn., where he 
was remarked alike by officers and students to be an uncommonly interesting 
and promising boy. He applied himself devotedly to every collegiate duty, and 
that, as was apparent to all, from principle, from love of study, and from a 


1884. Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 223 


On motion, the second resolution offered by Mr. Newton was 
adopted. : ; - 

The Rev. Dr. Hawks submitted the following, which was 
adopted unanimously : 


desire of improvement, rather than from any gratification of a selfish ambition. 
He graduated in 1830, when but seventeen years of age, at the head of his 
class, and without any competitor for its highest honors. 

“Though his mind was at this period firmly bent upon the Gospel ministry, 
he was advised, on account of his youth, and for the purpose of studying 
Hebrew, and disciplining his mind by an extended acquaintance with the 
sciences, to delay for a year the commencement of his theological course. He 
accordingly entered the General Seminary in 1831, and his instructors and 
fellow-students will all bear testimony to his proficiency, and to what may 
have been a too close devotion to his studies. 

“But, though assiduously laboring to cultivate his mind, and to store it 
with sound learning, he was most devotedly bent upon the more important 
discipline of his heart. He was conscientiously jealous of whatever might 
tend to bind it to earth. He felt that there was no middle ground for a disciple 
of the Lord Jesus to stand on; and especially did he feel, that a Christian 
minister’s life and his whole strength should be unreservedly sacrificed on the 
altar of his God. With such views and feelings, he was naturally led to 
inquire, and that with deep reflection and fervant prayer, how the cause 
of Christ and His Church could be most effectually promoted. The inquiry 
exercised his mind most deeply the last year of his theological course. ‘The 
field” he argued, ‘is the world.’ This whole field, through human instru- 
mentality, is to be cultivated for the final harvest of the Lord.. The blessed 
time of the glorious in-gathering will be advanced by the zeal, or retarded by 
the sluggish inaction of the Church. He believed that there exist in her bosom 
energies that have never yet been called into vigorous action, and that the 
most effectual mode of arousing them is to send from her own fold the heralds 
of salvation, not only for the purpose of immediately illuminating the dark 
places of the earth, but also for learning, and for sending back from its 
different parts such stories of the spiritual darkness and death in which it is 
shrouded, as, under God, should be the means of enlisting Christian sympathy 
and eliciting Christian effort for the great work of evangelizing the world. 
Such, in a word, was his decided view of the value of foreign missions to the 
Church. He desired their establishment and prosperity, for he considered 
them as important to the perfection of the grand system of bringing all people 
and nations of the earth into one fold under the one Great Shepherd. Yet he 
never set up his own opinion as the infallible guide of others. His views were 
too elevated, and his knowledge of human character too true, to suppose that, 
even with equally intelligent and honest minds, the same premises necessarily 
result in the same conclusions ; much less did he ever claim, that the possession 
of different sentiment on the subject of missions should be taken on either side 
of the question as a test of zeal or indifference for the cause of Christ. 


994 Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 1884, 


“ Wuernas, This Board has heard with the sincerest regret that, 
since their last annual meeting, their respected colleague and friend, 
the Rey. Dr. Montgomery, has been removed from among them by 
death; therefore, as an expression of the sense entertained by the 


“Such being Mr. Lyde’s settled conviction in reference to the missionary 
enterprise, he was led to ask, how the work should be advanced. The result 
was, that when the Church, from the authorized source, should send forth the 
inquiry, ‘Whom shall we send?’ his voice should be heard in the response, 
‘Heream J; send me.’ He accordingly wrote, last winter, to the lamented Dr. 
Montgomery, asking whether there was any probability that the Executive 
Committee of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society would recommend 
the establishment of a mission in Asia, In reference to the foreign mission 
previously established in Africa, he expressed a belief, that there were 
those in the Church who would hazard their lives in the burning heat of 
the African soil, if it were demanded by the cause of the Redeemer; but that 
he thought that the objects of foreign missions could be better effected at 
present upon other heathen ground. With his characteristic modesty he 
requested that his own name should in no way be connected with the inquiry. 
It is believed that the letter was shown but once, and then upon a known 
intimacy with its author. Dr. Montgomery, as may be supposed by all who 
knew him, was enthusiastic in his encomiums upon the character and spirit of 
the letter, but was too soon after prostrated upon his dying bed, ever to give it 
a reply. 

“In the spring of 18384, Mr. Lyde was afflicted with a cold and a slight 
billious attack, which to an extent reduced his strength, and seemed to render 
it necessary for him to suspend his studies for a while, and absent himself from 
the Seminary. On his way to Philadelphia he joined the company of a clergy- 
man and a layman, with whose persons, and with whose active interest and 
efficiency in all important matters of the Church, he was well acquainted. As. 
the special object of their visit to Philadelphia was to attend the meeting of 
the Board of Directors of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, his 
favorite theme was presented to their attention, and his own views and feel- 
ings most fully expressed. Through their instrumentality in bringing forward 
and advocating the question, the Board established the China Mission, with 
instructions to the Executive Committee to carry the object into effect, so soon 
as the men and means could be provided. Mr. Lyde afterward remarked, in 
conversation on the subject, that it had required a great sacrifice of natural 
feeling for him to decide upon leaving the society of friends and the attractions 
of country for a home in a strange and distant land, but that his mind was 
decided upon the course, and that it would require another great sacrifice of 
feeling, should he be disappointed in his hopes. 

“ But his hopes have been disappointed, though in a manner which he then 
but little anticipated. Notwithstanding he carefully pursued the course 
advised by his physician for the restoration of his health, it remained to all 
appearance stationary till the time of his graduation, the last week in June. 
He graduated with his class,.and the following Sunday was ordained by Bishop 


-Brownell, in*St. Thomas’s Church, New York, in company with several of his 


1834. Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 225 


Board of the services of Dr. Montgomery, so long and faithfully 
rendered, both in the Executive Committee and Board of Directors, 

“Resolved, That the Secretary be directed to enter upon the 
minutes of the Board this declaration of our sincere respect for the 


class-mates. The remainder of the summer was spent in New England, where 
he was advised to make a voyage to the West Indies, encouraged that he might 
return with renovated strength in the spring. On. reaching New York, 
the last of September, his case was more closely examined; and at his request 
to be honestly dealt with, his physician gave his opinion that his lungs were 
diseased beyond hope of recovery ; and that, for the sake of a more congenial 
climate, he had better leave for Philadelphia, than put himself entirely beyond 
the reach of his friends. He sustained the stroke like a Christian philosopher,* 
repeated the opinion that had been given of his condition, on arriving at Phil 
adelphia, without the least apparent emotion, and expressed his happiness that 
he had been apprized of the prospect before him, that he might be led the 
more earnestly to seek the grace necessary for his departure. He however 
asked further medical advice ; and, as, at his request, the worst was told him, 
he remained unmoved as hbefore. lLeaving his physician, he began to 
devise such arrangements as were necessary to enable him to spend as 
comfortably as possible the remnant of his days, and to die. His disease 
remained nearly stationary for four or five weeks, which induced the 
belief of his friends that he might survive the winter. But nine days before 
his death he attended church, and was on horseback the following Tuesday. 
He began to fail more rapidly after this, and left his room for the last time on 
Sunday. He was confined to his bed but one day, and expired at nine o ‘clock 
on Wednesday morning, the 19th November, 1834. | 

“Owing to a natural reservedness in the expression of his feelings, and to 
a settled aversion to everything like noisy cant in matters of religion, Mr. 
Lyde said little, quite too little, to his visiting friends, about dying, and about 
his prospects for eternity. Occasionally, however, he spoke of both tothe near 
friends that were with him, with calmness, and indeed with delight. He said 
that it seemed for him far better to die this winter than to live longer ; that if he 


entered upon his professional duties, an awful responsibility would attend him 


through life; that souls might be lost through his lack of faithfulness ;. that if 


* “ Test this expression should be misunderstood by any, it is proper to state, that, at the time 
when a consultation of physicians was held upon his case, Lyde was expecting their decision 
in another room. The physician who regularly attended him, and to whom he was much 
attached, was appointed to communicate with him. As he entered the room, and for a 
moment was silent, Lyde said to him, with great decision, ‘ Doctor, tell me plainly the exact 
truth ; I am prepared for any result.” So soon as his physician had informed him of the 
result of the consultation, Lyde burst into tears, and for afew minutes paced the room in 
strong emotion, and then exclaimed, ‘Can it beso? Shall I never be allowed to preach the 
Gospel in China? Yet Iam not worthy of sucha service! But I will labor for her sake while 
I live.’ The scene was most affecting and solemnizing. And he did labor for China after 
this; and his influence upon his brethren in the Seminary was not without effect, as one of the 
Missionaries now in China will testify.—Ep1ror.”’ 


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226 Proceedings of the Board of Direetors. 1881. 


memory of our deceased brother; and that he convey to the relict 
of our departed friend the expression of our sympathy in the dis- 
pensation which has deprived her of a husband, and us of one who 
was ever a warm and active friend of our institution.” 


his Heavenly Father willed, he should be resigned to stay on earth, but that he 
preferred going to do his Master’s work in another and a better world. The 
day before his death he said that, in the early part of his sickness, his views 
had not been so clear, nor his peace so perfect as he desired; ‘but,’ he pro- 
ceeded, his eye enlivened with an unearthly brightness, ‘my prospect has 
become perfectly glorious: the great secret of happy dying is a simple reliance 
on the strength of Christ; it is sweet to die in full assurance of reposing 
in the bosom of my Saviour.’ He became s0 elated with his theme as to forget 
his weakness, till checked and requested to be silent. At evening he asked Dr. 
DeLancey to administer the communion to him the following day. But it 
proved too late. The Doctor reached his dwelling just after he expired. His 
last hours were peaceful and happy, and attended with but little. bodily suffer- 
ing.* When past speaking he would rivet his piercing eye upon those 
weeping by his bed-side, and with smiles of heavenly joy seemed to rebuke their 
weakness for lamenting his departure. He sunk down without a struggle or a 
gasp, and found an apparently easy passage through ‘the valley of the 
shadow of death.” His body is laid in St. Peter’s churchyard,{ there to repose 
till aroused from its long slumber by the archangel’s trump on the morning 
of the resurrection. His spirit, though never privileged to exercise its powers 
in the ministrations of God’s sanctuary on earth, has been called away (may 
we not add?) for the express purpose of an employment in the services of 
that better temple, not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 

“ An event, however, like this, is a mystery too deep to be fathomed by the 
plummet of human reason. It is an event which the friends of our departed 
brother and the friends of the Church must of necessity mourn, though one 
which cannot fail to bend a submissive heart most humbly to the will of God. 
The sun of his earthly existence rose with amazing rapidity and brightness, 
but it has suddenly sunk into the midnight of the grave. No unsanetified 
reasoning can solve the question why a young man, with faculties so naturally 
powerful and so matured, should be taken from the world when just prepared 
to enter it with honor and preéminent usefulness. But there is to be found in 


*** T am allowed to transcribe from a letter written at the time of Lyde’s decease, the 
following passage: ‘ Before he retired for the night (Tuesday night), his aunt said to him, 
that, as he was unable to read his Bible (which was his constant study), she would read to 
him; and she inquired if there were any particular chapters which he wished to hear. He 
named the fortieth of Isaiah. When she had concluded it, he remarked, that he wished to 
meditate a little upon it; and after a, time he requested her to read the forty-third chapter of 
the same book .’—Eprror.”’ 

t‘* From the letter quoted in a former note, we subjoin another brief extract. ‘On Friday 
afternoon his funeral took place. He was carried into St. Peter’s Church. Bishop White, Dr. 
Abercrombie, and thirteen other clergymen attended. Bishop Onderdonk read the funeral 
service. The Church was crowded,—the hymn commencing * Vital spark of heavenly fame; 
was sung,—the music was very solemn,’—EpiTor.” 


test. Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 227 


On motion of the Right Rev. B. T. Onderdonk, the Board ° 
proceeded to ballot for a preacher of the Triennial Sermon, to be 
preached before the Society in 1835, which resulted in the choice 
of the Right Rev. Bishop Rett a 


faith a philosophy, which, if truly possessed, will hush at once every secret 
murmuring, and will readily reconcile the event to our minds, by a living 
dependence upon the wisdom and the goodness of the providence of God.” 


“In ‘The Missionary’ (published at Burlington) of November 29, 1834, a 
week before the article just quoted appeared, there was a short but very 
interesting notice of the author of these Remains, which it will be well to 
preserve. It is here quoted entire. 

“The Rey. Augustus Foster Lyde, deacon, who departed this life on the 
19th instant, in the city of Philadelphia, was a young man of no: ordinary 
promise; and his decease, at the moment when he seemed just fitted for useful- 
ness in the cause of Christ and of souls, to which he had given himself up, 
enforces fearfully the sentence of Holy Scripture, “ Be stilland know that I am 
God!’ Mr. Lyde was a graduate of Washington (now Trinity) College, where 
it was the privilege of the present writer to watch the first opening of his c“ear, 
vigorous, and manly intellect. He had not. quite completed the three years’ 
term of study at the General Theological Seminary, where the expectations 
formed of him at Washington College were more than realized, when the seeds 
of the insidious disease which caused his death were first detected. He was 
able to be present with the members of his class, who were admitted to the 
holy order of deacons, and to take upon himself the responsibilities of that 
sacred office, but not to discharge any of its functions. The progress of his 
disease was singularly rapid, and in less than five months after his ordination 
he was taken to his rest. There is little reason to doubt, that intense devotion 
to study was the proximate cause of Mr. Lyde’s disease. But there remains to 
those who knew and loved him, the precious consolation, that the zeal to which 
he fella martyr was not the unhallowed thirst for secular knowledge merely, or 
for temporal distinction, but the zeal of God’s house. During his connection 
with the General Theological Seminary, after much searching of heart, many 
prayers, and careful consultation of those who were over him in-the Lord, Mr. 
Lyde determined to devote himself, if God would accept the offering, to a 
Mission in China. And it is an interesting evidence of that generous self- 
dedication which had become, through grace, his characteristic trait, that bis 
determination was made, not in expectation of valuable services to be rendered 
by him, in the prosecution of so great a work, but of calling to it the attention 
of others better able to grapple with its tremendous difficulties. It did not 
please God to grant him the desire of his heart. Yet it is just to say, and will 
be an interesting reminiscence of his brief career, that, by his resolution to 
undertake the Chinese Mission, the attention of the Protestant Episcopal Church 
was first strongly turned to that subject, and the impulse, under God, derived 
from him, which has led to the establishment, by the Domestic and Foreign 
Missionary Society, of a Mission to China. From an early period of his 


228 Proceedings of the Boasd of Directors. 1834, 


On motion of Mr. Newton, the Rev. Dr. Hawks was appointed 
his substitute. 
On motion of Dr. Tyng, it was 


“ Resolved, That the Executive Committee be authorized to 
employ a clerk to assist the Treasurer and Secretary of the 
Society.” 


malady, contrary to the customary habit of consumptive patients, he antici- 
pated an early and a fatal issue; but, strong in the grace which is in Christ 
Jesus, he looked upon death with calmness, confidence, and cheerfulness. 
‘When the present writer, a fortnight before his death, reminded him, at 
parting, that whatever the result might be, it would be ordered, if his faith 
was firm, in infinite mercy,—“ and by Him,” he added with a smile, “ who doeth 
all things well.” ’ 


“The last exertion to write, which was made by the subject of these notices, 
was in behalf of China, and for the good of the brethren he had left behind 
him inthe Seminary. The letter, addressed by him to the members of the 
Missionary Society with which he had been connected, is filled with feeling, 
and breathes a spirit of the most complete self-dedication to his God and 
Saviour, and most earnest love for his fellow-men. It shall be recorded pre- 
sently. We now ask attention to the following communication, published in 
the same number of ‘ The Churchman’ which contained the former of the fore- 
going obituary notices. 

“On the receipt of the intelligence of the death of the Rev. Augustus F. 
Lyde at the Seminary, a meeting of the students was called in the Chapel, 
November 21, 1834, at which the letter announcing his death was_ read. 
The following resolutions, expressive of the sense of the students on the event, 
were adopted: and a committee was appointed to prepare a brief biography of 
our late brother for publication in the periodicals of the Church, together with 
the adopted resolutions, and a letter received a few weeks since from Mr. Lyde, 
addressed to the Missionary Society of the Seminary, his last effort in behalf of 
the cause to which he was pledged,—the cause of Missions. 

“«Trom the first part of their duty the Committee thus appointed are 
relieved by the full and satisfactory biography which appears in “The Church- 
man” of this week furnished by an intimate and confidential friend of Mr. 
Lyde, and who was therefore better qualified than any other for the office of 
his biographer. The Missionary letter alluded to will appear in “ The Church- 
man” of next week. The following are the resolutions, which were unaimously 
adopted: - 


“<« Resolved, That the decease of our late brother, the Rev. Augustus F.’ 


Lyde, is received by us with emotions of unaffected sorrow; and of thankful- 
ness to the God of all grace,that we can sorrow as those who have hope. 

“* Resolved, That we regard this dispensation of the Divine Providence as 
solemnly admonishing us to be watchful and diligent; that, whenever our 
Master may summon us hence, we may be ready and waiting. 


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On motion of Mr. Biddle, it was 


“Resolved, That the Right Rev. Bishop Otey be appointed to 
preach the Annual Sermon before this Board.” 


_ Onmotion of Dr. DeLancey, the Rev. Dr. Tyng: was appointed 
his substitute. 


«<< Resolved, That while we bow with humility to the will of God in this 
event, we cannot but entertain a deep sense of the loss sustained by the friends 
of our deceased brother; by the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church ; 
and peculiarly by the Missionary cause, to which he was pledged. 

«* Resolved, That a committee be appointed to present to the family of 
our deceased brother a copy of the above ihe heath with the assurance of our 
heartfelt condolence.’ 


«The letter, to which allusion has been made, is a precious document to the 
friends of our departed brother, but it is valuable to all, and is especially worthy 
of consideration by those who have entered, or are purposing to enter, upon 
the duties and responsibilities of the Christian ministry ; for every minister is 
a missionary, and should seek to be certain that he occupies his proper place in 
the labor of his Master’s harvest. It follows, as printed in the <The Church- 
man’ of December 13, 1834. . 


“« PHILADELPHIA, October, 1834. 

“« BRETHREN OF THE MISSIONARY SOcIETY,—It matters little to me that 
my personal connection with the Association has been dissolved ; that I no 
longer appear in your midst when you meet in pursuance of our glorious 
. objects. I am, and ever will be to the end of life, a member of the Mis- 

sionary Association in heart. 

“<Tt is well known to all, or most of you, that I had determined, by the 
help of God, to preach the Gospel to the heathen in China; but God, in His 
infinite wisdom, has seen fit to dispose it otherwise, and has removed the proba- 
bility of my preaching the Gospel to Christian or heathen. Ido not address 
you then in levity or inconsiderateness, but in the calm expectation of death. 
The point on which I stand is a deeply solemn one; may we mutually realize 
it. Standing on this elevated point and making a retrospect of my short life, 
I bend my eye along the causes which have contributed to create and modify 
my moral and religious character. Leaving the first. operations of God’s 
Spirit, I wander along a dark and dreary way, cheered by but few Christian 
hopes and attainments, until my eye rests upon an elevation imposing and 
bright. It is beautiful with “the feet of them that bring good tidings, that 
bring good tidings of good; ‘it is radiant with the same glorious light, that 
first broke in upon my mind and aeotared away its accumulated ignbdrance 
and sorrow. 

“«*«« Mighty through God I involuntarily exclaim, and, in view of eternity, 
hail the Missionary Association as, under God and His appointed means of 


230 _ Report of the Board of Directors. (1884. 


We proceed now to give such part of the Annual Report of 
the Board of Directors for 1834 as properly belongs to this 
history : | ; 


“ ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 


“ A survey of the proceedings of the institution for the pre- 
ceding twelve months will be found to contain gratifying evidence 


grace, the mightiest cause that he has brought to bear upon the salvation of 
my soul. 

“«You will immediately infer from what I have said, that I consider it your 
duty and privilege, and I hope you will consider it in the same light precisely, 
to perform most punctually all the duties required. It is only by such uniform 
course of conduct that the prosperity of a society is preserved, and its advan- 
tages fully secured. 

“* But it is not at the general meetings of the Society, nor yet the meetings 
of your committees (which should be made as conversational as possible), that 
the Missionary spirit is to be acquired, Alas! alas! how many there are, who 
mistake the interest felt in the pursuit of what is novel and strange, or the 
sympathy excited by human suffering, or the glow occasioned by the view of 
a great moral enterprise, for a deep and fervent love for the souls of perishing 
men! Often, too, the ardor excited by some powerful and moving appeal 
in behalf of this great cause, is nothing more than a natural sympathetic 
emotion, instead of the powerful movings of God’s Holy Spirit. 

“*QO no, my dear Christian brethren ; it is only in the holy, quiet retirement 
of your closet that this pure spirit isto be sought and found. Prayer,—earnest, 
constant prayer (in the deeply expressive language of Paul) the “groanings 
which cannot be uttered,’ will bring down the blessing we seek like the 
morning dew and the early rain. The other means are powerful in their 
place ; but here we win the blessing of God, as it were, immediately. 

“¢ But, my Christian brethren, these are but the preparatory steps to a higher 
and nobler course of duty. An ardent love for the souls of men is holy and 
acceptable in itself; but Christian virtue,most unlike the cold theories of man, 
has within itself the elements of vigorous resolve and action ; they are component 
parts of its existence. Has not, then, each one of you present a personal duty 
beyond all this, in reference to the great Missionary cause? Is there not treas- 
ured up, in the futurity of appointed duty, some further resolve and action of yet 
unconceived moment? Let us assume the remotest possibility that can be taken 
into the estimate, that it is the duty of but one out of your whole number to 
preach the Gospel to the heathen. Suppose that it were communicated to you, 
while together, that there was an unfailing certainty that one among you should 
leave home and country for Christ’s sake and the Gospel’s. How would the 
message be received? Every Christian heart (and such are ail, I trust) would 
at once respond to the possibility, and ask, “ Lord, is it 1?” nor would he 
cease to pray, and read, and meditate, until he could speak out from the dark- 
ness of uneertainty, ‘ Lord, I will follow thee, whithersoever thou goest.” 


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ot the success with which it has pleased Almighty God to crown 
its efforts in the cause of truth and holiness, 

“But with these tidings of joy, the Board are constrained to 
mingle a voice of mourning. During the past year, death has 
removed one of their number, who, from the first organization of 
the Society, has been ranked among its ablest and most devoted 
friends, and to whose untiring exertions in its behalf may justly be 


But in the name and presence of Almighty God, in view of our destiny for 
eternity, as we expect to stand before the judgment-seat of Christ, does any 
one believe that the Saviour, the Lord of Missions and salvation, requires but 
one Missionary from your whole number? Does any one believe that the whole 
heathen world, with its hundreds of millions, claims but one Missionary from 
the Protestant Episcopal Church? Do not disguise the fact. You know that 
if they go not from our seminaries, they will never go; these are the only 
probable sources of supply. ; 

“ «Tn reply to the above questions, in the confidence of truth, I answer, No. 
To every one, then, I would say, “It may, or it may not be your duty to go 
abroad. If it is not, you should be prepared to go wherever your Divine 
Master may be pleased to send you. If it should be your duty (I tremble at 
the possibilities of the case), under what awful responsibilities do you lie! 
You stand in the relation of one who turns away from the path that God points 
out to him, and chooses one for himself.” There is no one present but would 
revolt at such a thought. 

«“«Vet me in conclusion add a few more particular remarks. There is very 
great danger of erring in the decision, by drawing up a long list of qualifi- 
cations on the authority, perhaps, of some writer, and excusing ourselyes 
thus on several grounds entirely insufficient. There are necessary qualifi- 
cations; but we should pray much before we excuse ourselves for any single 
reason. \ 

“Again. It is clearthat no man can say, previous to an investigation, that 
it is out of the question that he should go. Of course I here except domestic 
necessities. But there are many to whom the thought is so entirely new and 
almost chimerical, that they dismiss it without a thought. Refined education, 
or talent, or expecations, stand forever between them and faithfulness to their 
souls, 

“* Farewell, my dear Christian brethren! I feel like one who sees his 
brothers on the brink of a precipice, where he himself found out dangers at 
which the heart may tremble. But “let not your heart be troubled.”’ I have 
all along presupposed that the Holy Spirit would be afforded abundantly, and in 
the use of God’s appointed means, in his appointed way. You cannot, as surely 
as God is true, you cannot fail of his approbation. 

“Once more, farewell! and that the God of all mercy may guide you in all 
your investigations, is the earnest prayer of 

“<« Your fellow-member and brother in Christ, 
“ea -F, LYDE! 


932 Report of the Board of Directors. 1884, 


attributed. much of that usefulness and prosperity by which the 
institution is at present characterized. To lose an associate so 
faithful, zealous, and endeared as the lamented Montgomery, could 
not fail to occasion the deepest regret. But while the Board have 
grieved over this afflicting dispensation, they have endeavored to 
bow in humble and unfeigned submission to the Divine will, and to 


“It is unnecessary to add any words in approbation of this epistle. It 
speaks for itself most eloquently. Nor is it necessary to enlarge upon the per- 
sonal character of its writer. And we would not trespass upon the office of a 
biographer. It seems, however, while we are colleeting here the chief docu- 
ments which relate to our brother, to be right, as well as agreeable to his friends, 
to annex in this placea few poetical pieces produced soon after his decease. 

“Upon a plain marble slab, enclosed in the churchyard of St. Peter’s 
church, Philadelphia, may be read. this faithful and touching insciption, 
prepared by Bishop Doane, of New Jersey: 


«Sacred to the Memory 
of 
THE REVEREND AvuGustus FosrER LyDk, 
A Deacon 
Of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States; 
Who was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, 
. February 4th, 1813; 
And died in the City of Philadelphia, 
November 19th, 1834. 
It was in his Heart 
To preach the Gospel to the Chinese ; 
And for this Service 
He had offered himself to God and the Church, 
But it pleased his Heavenly Father 
To call him early home, | 
And he died, 
At 21, 
Patient, cheerful, victorious, 
Through the faith 
Of the Lord Jesus Christ. 


“The following tribute to the memory of our friend has been kindly 
furnished for insertion in this volume by one who knew him well, the distin- 
guished American poetess, Mrs. Sigourney. Its justice is equalled only by its 
beauty. 


* AUGUSTUS FOSTER LYDE. 


“Thou wert a musing student o’er thy book, 
When first I saw thee, Yet the eagle’s wing 
Soars not more duly sunward than thy mind 


1834. Report of the Board of Directors. 233 
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regard their bereavement as a renewed call on every survivor to 
greater activity and diligence in the important charge committed 
to,their care. 

“Under the combined influence of these considerations, the 
Board would present their statement of the Society’s transactions, 
together with an exhibition of its actual condition and prospects. 


From ciliff to cliff of knowledge urged its way, 
Kindling and glorying at the proud career. 

A ripe, rare spirit wrought within thy form 

Of boyish beauty. 


“But thy glance grew deep, 
Feeding on‘secret, solitary thought, 
With speechless joy. For thou didst hear that voice 
From voiceless nature,—in the wind that swept 
Around thy cloistered casement, in the stream 
Freshening the foliage of yon classic grove, 
And in the whisper of the lone wild flower,— 
Which none but poets hear. Thy wakened lyre, 
Sweet son of song! won thee warm brotherhood 
With many a loving heart. 


“Yet not the realm 
Of ancient Learning, thronged with classic shapes, 
Nor rose-wreathed Poesy’s delightful bowers, 
Contented thee. Thy soul had holier aims, 
And from Castalian waters meekly turned 
To the pure brook that kissed thy Saviour’s feet, 
What time to dark-browed Olivet he went 
For lowly prayer. And ever o’er thine hour 
Of deep devotion China’s millions stole, 
Blind, wandering, lost. 


“ And then thou didst dismiss 
The host of pleasant fancies that so long 
Had made thy pilgrimage a music-strain, 
And for the outcast heathen pledge thy life, 
A diamond to the treasury of thy Lord. 
—Heaven took the pledge,—yet not for weary years 
Of toil, and pain, and age :—there was a flush 
On thy young cheek,—a fire within thine eye— 
A failing of the footstep that was wont 
To tread green earth so firm and buoyantly,— 
A wasting of the half-ethereal clay ;— 
Heaven took the pledge, and thou art all its own. 

Sit Has 


234 Report of the Board of Directors. 1884. 


“FUNDS. 

“The amount received by the Treasurer since the last Annual 
Meeting is $26,007.97, being an excess over the year ending May ¢2, 
1883, of $6,150.56. Considering the difficulties under which our 
country is laboring, and which for more than six months have 
affected all classes of socicty, this advance in the resources of the 
institution furnishes not only matter for heartfelt gratitude, but 
irresistible proof that the Society is ee! gaining on the affec- 
tions of the members of the Church, 


‘* ADDITIONAL MEMBERS. 


“Since the meeting of the Board in May, 1833, there have been 
added to. the list of Annual Subscribers 5 names, to that of Life 
Members 23 names, and to that of Patrons 25 names, 

“Whole number of Patrons at the present time, 135; Life Mem- 
bers, 117; Annual Subscribers, 49, 


*“ AUXILIARY ASSOCIATIONS. 


“During the year which has passed, Associations auxiliary to 
this Society have been formed at the following places : 


“Portsmouth, N. H.; Greenfield and Cambridge, Mass.; Bristol and New- 
port, R. I.; Huntington, Derby, New Haven, Newtown, New Milford, and 
Cheshire, Conne ; Trex, baiepui een es Albany, Utica, Buffalo, Ithaca, Rensselaer- 
ville, Brooklyn, N. Y,; Germantown, Meadville, Philadelphia, Philadelphia 
County, Bristol Calese, Lancaster, Bioomsburgh, Penn.; Lancaster County, 
Richmond County, Caroline County, Richmond, Lunenberg County, Norfolk, 
Va.; Charleston, St. Helena Island, 8. C.; Columbus, Delaware, and Berkshire 
Counties, Circleville, Ohio; Tuscaloosa, Ala.—Total, 38. 


“GENERAL AGENT, 


“Immediately after the last meeting of the Board, the General 
Agent left Philadelphia with a view of prosecuting the duties of his 
oftice in the State of New York. He remained in the City of New 
York until the 15th of June, and while there, obtained subscriptions 
to the amount of $1,262.40, the greater part of which was contribut- 
ed for the general purposes of the Society. 

“At the date above mentioned, the Agent commenced a journey 
to Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Troy, Hudson, and Athens; preached 
at all these places, formed an Association at Troy, and made collec- 
tions amounting to $152.13, Having returned to New York, and spent 
a short time there, he again set out on a tour of duty, visiting in his 


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progress, Albany, Schenectady, Ballstown, Utica, Auburn, Homer, 
Geneva, Batavia, Rochester, and Buffalo. At each of these towns 
the General Agent presented the claims of the Society, and formed 
Associations at Schenectady, Utica, and Buffalo, During this ex- 
cursion the Agent received on account of the Society $273.70. 

On the arrival of the Agent in Philadelphia, in September, he 
tendered his resignation to the Executive Committee, which was 
accepted by them. \ 

“On the 23d of December, the Committee adopted the following 
resolution ; 

“That the subject of the Generel Agency be referred to the 
Board of Directors at their next Annual Meeting. 


*“* SPECIAL AGENTS, 


In October last, the Rev. Samuel Fuller, Rector of St. Michael’s 
Church, Litchfield, Conn., was appointed an Agent of the Society, 
with a view to the enlargement of the subscribers to the Missionary 
Record, the increase of Auxiliary Associations on the plan recom- 
mended by the Committee in 1829, and the extension of the list of 
Patrons, Life Members, and Ase Subscribers. 

- an account of ill sealth, Mr, Fuller has been able to spend but 
a small portion of time in in duties of his agency. The result of 
his exertions, however, has been satisfactory to the Committee. 


“MISSIONARY PAPER. r 


“The Board would again express their conviction of the advau- 
tage which has accrued to the Society in consequence of its periodi- 
cal paper. From every quarter of the Church they have received 
assurance that this publication has been the means of extensive 
good, accompanied also with strong expressions of satisfaction with 
the manner in which it has been conducted, and earnest solicitations 
that the Society would on no account suffer it to be discontinued. 
There has been a very considerable accession of subscribers since 
May, 1833, but still the Record does not support itself. 

“The whole number of copies issued monthly is 4,000; which 
cost the Society $1,080 per annum, The number of subscribers, at 
one dollar per annum, is 513. For the privilege of advertising on 
the cover, $80 per annum are paid by Messrs. George, Latimer & 
Co. So that the actual expense of this publication to the Society 
for the last year, has been $487. 


236 Report of the Board of Directors. 1834, 


‘ 
“There may be some who will regard even this too large an 


amount to be deducted from the general fund. To such the Board 
would simply state their deliberate conviction, that the steady pro- 
gress of the Society depends, under the blessing of God, on the dif- 
fusion of Missionary intelligence. And if the ‘Church Missionary 
Society,’ in the twentieth year of its existence, did not consider 
£3,500 too large a sum to be disbursed in a twelve-month for such 
an object, much less should the item just reported be regarded as an 
exceptionable expenditure. 

“‘ At the same time, the Board are aware that similar variceal 
in our country and elsewhere, have become a source of considerable 
revenue to the Institutions under whose auspices they appear. And 
they cannot but believe that such will also be the case with respect to 
this Society’s paper, when the members of the Church become gener- 
ally acquainted with its important bearing on the cause of Missions. 

“To accomplish an event so desirable, the Executive Committee 
recently requested, by a resolution, the codperation of the Clergy ; 
and the Board indulge the hope that assistance, in a cause so inti- 
mately connected with the Divine glory and the advancement of 
religion, will, in no instance, be withheld. 


“ CONTINGENT EXPENSES. 


‘“‘ At the meeting of the Board in May last, the following minute 
was adopted : 


y Resolved, That the Executive Committee be instructed to inquire whether 
the contingent expenses of this Society can be reduced without injury to its in- 
terests, and report to the Board of Directors at the next Annual Meeting. 


“In compliance with the above, the Executive Committee pre- 
sented the following Report: 

“The Executive Committee have ascertained the contingent ex- 
penses of the Society to consist, at the present time, in the follow- 
ing items: 


Dalary. of Secretary,......~<.-1n eee bitte ao ae coals oe $800 00 
% 4 as Editor of Missionary Record . ae 200 00 

Rent of Rooms 35.02%. oe ohn coe ae a nein ete eee 140 00 
Missionary Record: 3... 5.00. Sait eee a ae 1,080 00 
Stationery, abouti il. 5). .5 2 ote ele ale» ts ee 12 00 
Postaregs ais els «sub web pe nlalier al b)aee ey wis taie teks ie en 90 00 
Fuel) and ight 935.. in 3 «2.50.4 ox tc 2 cee ae 15 00 
Wages Of D0y mic. sass ss’. 5-5 ois kicDie sae ete eke ee 65 00 

Total, ¥.5%5 34 bere eee $2,402 00 


1834. Leport of the Board of Directors. 237 


“ Making a total of $2,402, from which, if there be deducted the 
receipts on account of subscriptions to the Missionary Record, and 
for advertising on the cover, the sum of $593, it reduces the expense 
of the Ftecord to $487, and the total amount of expenses under the 
head referred to this Committee to $1,809. There was, at the time 
this subject was referred by the Board to the consideration of the 
Executive Committee, a large additional item—the salary of the 
_ General Agent. But as that has ceased during the recess of the 
Board by the resignation of the Agent at that time in the service 
of the Society, and as the vacancy thus created has never been 
supplied, your Committee do not feel themselves called on to’ take 
it into consideration. : . 

“The Committee would, however, invite the attention of the 
_ Board of Directors to the fact that there has been a considerable 
increase in the income of the Society during the past year. The 
Treasurer’s Report shows an amount of $6,000 over the receipts of 
the last year. Nor must it be forgotten, that in the current. year 
there has been but $500 received from the Government on account 
of the Green Bay Mission, while, during the last, $1,700 were con- 
tributed from that source. 

“They think it worthy the consideration of the vecutive Com- 
mittee, whether, while the appeals of the Executive Committee and 
the circulation of the Missionary Record meet with so ready a 
response from the members of the Church as to produce an increase 
of over $6,000 in the year, there be any occasion to resort to a more 
expensive mode of drawing their attention to the claims of the Mis- 
slonary cause, 


“ GREECE. 


“In a joint communication from the Rev. Messrs. Robertson 
and Hill, dated Athens, Aug. 29, 1833, they informed the Executive 
Committee that the subject of a new arrangement regarding their 
Mission had long been upon their minds, and that after much con- 
sideration and prayer, they had determined to remove the press de- 
partment to Syra. The reasons for this change are thus assigned 
by them: ‘In this one town (Athens) of little more than six thou- 
sand inhabitants, there are already four Missionary families, besides 
Dr. Korck, who, though not in the actual employ of any society, 
still gives himself to the work as far as circumstances will allow. 
The Rev. Mr. Leeves, Agent of the British and Foreign Bible Socie- 


238 Report of the Board of Directors. 1884. 


ty, has also purchased a building lot here, and expects to establish 
himself in the coming year. The inquiry is occasionally made, both 
by the Greeks and strangers, why, when so many other parts of the 
country need similar aid, we should all remain in Athens; for it is 
a fact that, with the exception of Syra, where Mr. Hildner is 


stationed, there is not a Missionary in any other part of liberated 


Greece. It is certainly very desirable that too many should not be 
concentrated in this one spot, both from regard to the wants of 
other places, and to avoid the suspicion that we are allured here 
chiefly by the high interest which is justly attached to this locality. 
Upon these grounds we concluded that it was expedient for one of 
us to select another station.’ . 

“The building which was noticed in the last Report as about to 
be erected by the Missionaries at Athens, for the use of the Infant 
and Female Schools, was finished. The building is of stone, 72 feet 
in length and 30 broad, consisting of two stories above ground, and 
one under ground. On the first floor there is a large hall for the 
Infant school-room and two other rooms. On the second floor there 
are three large school-rooms and a beautiful corridor. On the un- 
der-ground floor there is a pleasant class-room, a kitchen, and a 
magazine. More than 300 children are here daily instructed. 

“The boys’ school continues to be an important institution. It 
consists of 60 pupils, divided into three classes, who study Ancient 
Greek under a competent teacher. This department is under the 
direction of Mr. Hill, who has also the general supervision of all the 
schools. 

“On the 24th of February, Mr. George A. Polymerios, a native 
of Greece, who spent the largest portion of the last year in the 
United States, for the purpose of perfecting himself in the art of 
printing, became connected with the Society as Printer to the Greek 
Mission. 

“The political movements which have recently taken place in 
Greece, have proved favorable to the operations of the Society in 
that quarter. Several of the highest officers of the present govern- 
ment are among the personal friends of the Missionaries, and mani- 
fest a disposition to assist them to the utmost of their ability. 


* APRIOA. 


“Within the past year, the Committee were informed by Dr. 
James Hall, the present Governor of the Colony at Cape Palmas, 


i ee ini 


— 


3808 Leport of the Board of Directors. 239 


that a portion of the most respectable inhabitants of Monrovia had 
formed themselves into a religious society, under the title of St. 
James’s Church, professing to be governed by the laws of the Prot- 
estant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. 

“Dr. Hall placed in the hands of the Committee an appeal for 
aid in the erection of a house of worship for said Church, signed by 
its Wardens and Vestry. This the Committee had published in the 
Missionary Record for October last, and, in answer to it, have re- 
ceived the sum of $201.15. 

“In relation to this department of Missions, the Committee have 
felt, and do still entertain a lively concern,. Gladly would they 
have improved the opportunity, had such been presented, of further- 
ing a cause so dear to the Christian and philanthropist, as the evan- 
gelizing of benighted Africa. But although nothing has as yet 
been accomplished by the Society in behalf of this object, the Com- 
mittee do not despair of ultimate success. The day cannot be far 
distant when Episcopalians, constrained by the love of the Saviour, 
will enlist in this holy enterprise, and give themselves to spend and 
be spent in its service. is 

“In reviewing the foregoing facts, the Board: cannot but per- 
ceive the most gratifying evidence of an increase of the Missionary 
spirit in the Church with which this Society stands connected. At 
the same time, it must be acknowledged that the calls of Providence 
far outrun the zeal and charity of Episcopalians in this country. 

“Wherever we direct our attention, fields appear already ‘white 
to harvest.’ The inhabitants of Asia, of Africa, of the Isles of the 
sea, of the distant territories of our own land, are imploringly stretch- 
ing forth their hands for spiritual assistance; while from their anx- 
ious lips we may almost catch the fervent address of those Greeks 
to Philip, whose breasts were glowing with desire to see the Lord. 

“Truly the signs of long-predicted times are multiplying fast 
upon us; and indications which cannot be misunderstood are 
abroad among the nations, of the rapid approach of that day 
when ‘all shall know the Lord, from the least to the greatest, and 
the whole earth will be filled with His glory.’ 

‘Much, we have reason to believe, has been effected, in this age 
of benevolence, toward sapping the foundations of Satan’s king- 
dom, and introducing the glorious reign of the Prince of Peace. 
But in comparison with what remains to be done, all past achieve- 
ments are but as nothing. Extensive empires are yet enveloped in 


240 Report of the Board of Directors. 1884, 


the grossest moral darkness. Ignorance and vice, infidelity and 
false religion, everywhere abound; and immortal souls are daily 
passing into eternity, fitted only in temper and disposition for the 
society of those who inhabit the regions of everlasting misery and 
despair. 

“Instead, therefore, of relaxing our efforts or abating our ardor, 
let onward be the watchword of every friend of this Society. Let 
all our resources of faith, and prayer, and influence, and self-denial 
be brought into lively exercise. Let each offer unto the Lord of 
their substance, and give himself unto labor for the cause of Imman- 
uel, as we have never done before. In a word, let us resolve to ren- 
der unto God, our Redeemer, the service which He requires at our 
hands, assured that His approbation in the day of final account, will 
be an ample recompense for all our endeavors to promote the Divine 
eslorv in the salvation of our fellow-men.” 


“¢ DONATIONS. 


“From the ‘Troy Society’ there has been received the sum of $1,015 in 
aid of the objects of the Greek Mission. 

“From the American Tract Society, $1,000 to aid our tract operations in 
Greece and at Green Bay. 

“From various SERIO ORS and individuals, articles valued in the aggregate 
at $642.3214, viz. 

“From the orale Charitable Society of St. Peter’s Church, Ashtabula, 
Ohio, a box of articles for the Green Bay Mission, valued at $24.12. 

“From the ladies of St. George’s Church, New York, one box of articles 
for the same Mission, valued at $33. 

“From the Female Benevolent Society of Zion Church, Aulus Otsego 
County, N. Y., one box of articles for the same Mission, valued at $75.88. 

“From Baravie: per the Rev. Lucius Smith, one box of articles for the same 
Mission, valued at $24.60. 

“From the Ladies’ Episcopal Society of Oxford, Chenango County, N. Y., 
one box of articles for the same Mission, valued at $52.04. 

“From individuals .at Berlen, Moravia, Homer, and Onondaga, N. Y., one 
box of articles for the same Mission, valued at $71.83. 

“From individuals at Paris, Oneida County, N. Y., one box of articles for 
the same Mission, valued at $16.50. 

“From an individual at Greenfield, Mass, one box of articles for the same 
Mission, valued at $31.96. 

“From Christ Church Sunday School, New York, one box of articles for the 
same Mission, valued at $22.96. 

“From the Ladies’ Association at Northfield, Conn., and the Ladies’ Associ- 
ation of Watertown, Conn, one box of articles for the same Mission, valued at 


$26.34. 


, ; F - t 


1834. Report of the Board of Directors. 241 


“From Miss 8. Crittenton, of Elizabethtown, N. J., one box of articles for 
the same Mission, valued at $13.37. 
“From the Female Sewing Society of St. Michael’s Church, Livingston 
County, N. Y., one box of articles, valued at $27.10. 
“From the ladies of Christ Church, Oswego, N. Y., one box of articles, 
valued at $78.50. 
“From an unknown individual, a box of articles, valued at $72.08. 
“From another unknown individual, one box of articles for the Green Bay 
Mission, valued at $29.25, and also a plow. 
“From the ladies of Immanuel Church, Bellows Falls, Vt., one box of 
articles for the same Mission, $103.3714.” ; 


“CONTRIBUTIONS OF ASSOCIATIONS. 


NEW HAMPSHIRE. 


Female Missionary Society, St. John’s Church, Portsmouth................0cc0ee0eees $65 00 
Episcopal Missionary Society of Portsmouth... 00... 0... ceca ccs ce ene csereneesees 20 00 
MAINE. 

Pemale Missionary cociety of. Trinity Church; Saco... 0.6... cca. peeeee cescceeees 80 00 
Female Auxiliary Missionary Society, Portland............. Asta «'alalep ee ates svete td ales eetiee 84 25 
Female Foreign Education Society, Portland..............050 6 cece sees cece cece eeeees 100 00 

MASSACHUSETTS, 
Missionary Association, St. James’s Church, Greenfield................ccseceeee eee eee 19 00 
Ladies’ Sewing Circle. St. James’s Church, Greenfield............ 0... cece eee cee eens 10 00 
Missionary Association, St. Mary’s Church, Newton (Lower Falls)....................- 40 00 
Miestowary Aeeociavion, Christ Church, Quincy ..5. 2.05 occ. ceca eee secedeceecaeccns sede 25 00 
Missionary Association, St. Ann’s Church, Lowell....... ........ Bic mirent Sarees cete ae teioe « 50 00 
Auxiliary Missionary Association, Christ Church, Cambridge................ece0.seeee 51 50 
Auxiliary Missionary Society, St. James’s Church, Greenfield..................025 200. 20 00 
Auxiliary Missionary Association, St. Michael’s Church, Marblehead.................. 19 00 
Episcopal Monthly Concert, Boston............-...ccceeseeeseeees BN Eis Sharer og a ack cyte 100 00 
VERMONT. 
Ladies’ Missionary Association, St. Albans..........,26.sscecsscsccccctcccces, coctaces 20 00 
Missionary Association, Sheldon Rear eee ee enh eases aeis ale» cis orahe Gre Nic/atoiwiels ec aevals.o% = 10 00 
Missionary Ascociation, St. Paul’s Church, Windsor... ....:...2...c0sceccceseccevecess 20 00 
Missionary Association, St. James’s Church, Arlington......... cc. .ccceccc eee cence 29 00 


RHODE ISLAND, 


Ladies’ Sewing Society, St. Michael’s Church, Bristol................ cscs ecee seer eeeee 36 00 
Auxiliary Missionary Association, St. John’s Church, Providence.... ..............4. 132 42 
Missionary Association, Grace Church, Providence.............-..cececscsccccccsseess 100 00 
Female Missionary Society, Trinity Church, Newport......... ..... eats Ce) eaualeas ia'e s'« 99 54 
CONNECTICUT. 
Ladies’ Society, Trinity Church, Newiown............+.2..006- EEE re eee 20 00 
Juvenile Missionary Society, Christ Church, Middletown........ ........0..-eceeceeee 5 00 
Missionary Association, St. Michael’s Church, Litchfield.......... HAG SE One eee "1 10 
Male and Female Association, St. Matthew’s Church, Plymouth. ..................24.. 26 35 
Missionary Association, Christ Church, Watertown ............. cccccccccccccccceceses 28 90 
Miarverociery.ov, eters Church, PlYMOUtH. .o5 oc ccc iets «cateee cc ciccecccacccsscciess 80 00 
Missionary wAssocistion, Christ Church, Stratford... cas... ccc cece wees ccceseeseeeees 49 00 
Monthly Missionary Meeting, Christ Church, Stratford................. cece cceeceeseees 17 00 
Missionary Association, Washington College, Hartford...........c0cceecee seceeeeesees 88 09 
Ladies’ Benevolent Society, St. Peter’s Church, Cheshire.....ccccccsceccceecsescserees 30. 09 


16 


249 Contributions of Associations. 


Auxiliary Missionary Society, St. Peter’s Church, Cheshire.............c-eseeeeeceees. 
Female Benevolent Society, St. James’s Church, New London.................seceeee- 
Ladies’ Auxiliary Society, St. Paul’s Church, Huntington. ......... 5.2.2. s0e seems 
Male Missionary Association, St. Andrew's Church, Meriden............... mngamanaasc 
Ladies’ Missionary Association, St. Andrew’s Church, Meriden...............- SAR AAS 
Trinity Parish Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, New Haven........ 
Missionary Association, St. John’s Church, Bridgeport........ ...........e0- Se ee 
Female Education Society, St. John’s Church, Bridgeport................sseeeeeeerees 
Female Missionary Association, St. James’s Church, New London................. «-. 
Education and Missionary Society, Trinity Church, Newtown..................-..---. 
Episcopal Missionary Society, Chatham ...2 0.0... 2... 0s. oss + os sua seen ete tae 
Auxiliary Missionary Society, St. Peter’s Church, Litchfield County. ccc sce ese min etee 
Auxiliary Missionary Society, Christ Church, Hartford...............0.cscesesecceccces 
Missionary Society, St. John’s Church, New Milford... ...........0...escesecccecssers 
Episcopal Female Missionary Society, Christ Church, Middletown......... ........... 
Litchfield County Missionary Association.................0eee0e- acquetncensl se ahah os enaratel Qarataere 
Monthly Missionary Meeting, Christ Church, Norwich...............c2seeeeceeveeecees 
Female Missionary Society, Grace Church, Saybrook..... .........2.eceeeeeeeee BAGO 


NEW YORK. 


Missionary Association, Ascension Church, New York..............-.+-++ Britten oct. 
Missionary Association, St. Ann’s Church, Brooklyn........ .....-scesscecescceesceees 
Female Missionary Society, St. Matthew’s Church, Bedford. ..............cceeesceeees 
Missionary Association, General Theological Seminary...............020c00 eeeceeeees 
Christian Benevolcut Society, St. Stephen’s Church, New York..............2..00+8-- 
Female Missionary Society, St. James’s Church, Newtown, L. I..............2.----00+ 
Association of Christ Church, New York, for the Promotion of Christianity Riv Widvotetesciar sts 
Protestant Episcopal Association, Trinity Church, Utica...............2.cseececeeeeees 
Ladies’ Sewing Society, Christ Church, Cooperstown..............ceececeeceecsccecers 
Female Missionary Association, Trinity Church, New Rochelle. ...................5. ae 
Missionary and Education Society, St. Peter’s Church, Albany.....................0 
Female Union Benevolent Association, Poughkeepsic................ccesceecceeeeeees 
Auxiliary Missionary Association of the Churches in Poultney and Hampton.......... 
Protestant Episcopal Association, St. John’s Church, Brooklyn... ............. .eeeee- 
Missionary Association, St. John’s Church, Troy.....7u5.... cess eves eee neneeen ene 
Missionary Socicty, St. Paul’s Church, Rochester.... .. . glaives ota ell eraetesee ME Stir etic 
Missionary Association, St. John’s Church, Brooklyn..............0cceeccvcescesccsece 
Association, St. Thomas’s Church, New York... .....<.-. cnsset one eee Mas sare 
Society for the Promotion of Christianity, St. George’s Church, New York............ 
Association, St. George's Church, Hempstead, L. I.....:..5......0.scceecesccrsssnceers 
Missionary Association, St.‘Paul’s Church, Buffalo’.. .......:...ceceesscetsscsssennece 
Green Bay Missionary Association, St. Luke’s Church, New York...............0.0000% 
Asso’n for Promotion of Christianity, City Mission Ch, (Holy Evangelist), New York.. 


NEW JERSEY. 


Female Missionary Association, St. Andrew’s Church, Mount Holly...............- Ane 
PENNSYLVANIA. 
Female Society, St. Andrew’s Church, Philadelphia, for the Promotion of Religion.... 
Missionary Association, St. John’s Church, Carlisle.... ....... ..ccseascececcccscccccs 
Auxiliary Missionary Association, Trinity and All Saints’ Churches, Philadelphia Co.. 
Parish Association, Christ Church, Meadville......... BA SNC eis « c.eieVantsrets adepteseimenicts 
Female Missionary Society, St. John’s Church, Philadelphia........ ae daleeeen ccnsteh ein te 
Sewing Society, Christ Church, Meadville -.. 0. ...0...cs+ssccesesceaeuguanamee A atele Saree 
Association of St. Paul’s Church for the Promotion of Religion.............sceceeeeee- 
Missionary Association, St. James’s Church, Philadelphia............c.cececececececes 
Sunday School Teachers’ Missionary Association, St. James’s Church, Philadelphia... 
Juvenile Missionary Association, St. James’s Church, Philadelphia..... ios Visoenete™ 


Missionary Association, St. Paul’s Church, Bloomsburg........cccsccsscesedsececesecs 


82 00 


a a ett 


1884, Contributions of Associations. 243 
Association of Christ Church, Philadelphia.... .................. 0000 n GU SOR Te eee 120 00 
Missionary Association, Trinity Church, Southwark, Philadelphia.................... . 5000 
Missionary Association, Christ Church, Philadelphia..................... 00s Cia POSE 35 00 
Missionary Association, Christ Church, Brownsville........... Pigepemees aay SOA SEADES 13 00 
Meenrvenoetine, Christ Church, Reading... 2.2.0... cece ace ccaneacaacensoncecevcctes 32 68 
Auxiliary Missionary Society, Christ Church................... are aris ee .. 4300 
Ladies’ Missionary Society, St. James’s Church, Lancaster........... Ralsereserieniee dice cas 58 25 
; DELAWARE. 

Missionary Association, Trinity Church, Wilmington................. ccc ccceeseeeeee . 50 00 
aoelr SEM UC TIULCH, OLAURIOR ceca ce s.cie x, vo cdece sels qeccacecsecesderecec ae ey 
MARYLAND. 

Femalc Sewing Society, St. Ann’s Church, Annapolis................ cccccccceccsceecs 30 00 
Missionary Association, Christ Church, Baltimore.... ............ 0... ccecces cece eeees 60 00 
Ladies’ Missionary Society, All Saints’ Parish, Frederick ............................. 8000 
Missionary Association, St. Peter’s Church, Baltimore................ccece cece cccecces 485 00 
Juvenile Missionary Association, St. Peter’s Church, Baltimore................. 2.206. 88. 00 
VIRGINIA. 

Mee rereemencmt1On, ANtTins Parish; 2.20... i oe ek cece yuh cect canccucucepesvcccecs 123 50 
Missionary Association, Theological Seminary, Alexandria........0........cceeeee eens 180 "7 
Female Auxiliary Missionary Society, Zion Church, Charlestown..................025. 45 00 
Missionary Association, St. Ann’s and South Farnham Parishes, Essex County.. ..... 213 64 
Auxiliary Association, St. Andrew’s Parish, Brunswick County....................0.5. 88 50 
Auxiliary Association, Bath Parish; Dinwiddie County............ 0... ccc cece cece eens 21 50 
Auxiliary Association, St. Martin’s Parish, Hanover................. ccc cece cece eeeeees 50 00 
Missionary Association, St. Paul’s Church, Norfolk................ cece cece cece ee eeces 80 15 
Female Missionary Association, St. John’s Church, Lunenburg County..... .......... 5 00 
Missionary Association, Christ Church, Richmond ............... cece cece cece ee - 60 00 
Auxiliary Missionary Society, St. George’s Church, Fredericksburg.................... 59 %5 
Association for the Promotion of Christianity, St. George’s Church, Caroline Couunty.. % 50 
Ladies’ Society in Bishop Meade’s Congregation... ......... 2. cece eee cece cece eee eee 55 00 
Protestant Episcopal Female Society, Christ Church, Lancaster County............... 30 00 
Tadics’ society, Christ Church, Winchester.......0 25... .. cece cece cee eccnescccnccelenes 120 00 
Muvenile missionary SOciety, WINCHESLET. . 0.1... ccc ete ete neces eaten ce tacece 10 00 
Foreign and Domestic Missionary Society, Winchester................ s,s scene eeeees 85 00 
iN eNO CONG EBIODAL Ye OCICLY:s.. ci cccckes cece cc ccc ent ceedeey see cecaeeccueeeses 80 00 
Female Foreign Missionary Society, Monumental Chen ICNMOL Merete cere nto 54 00 
Association, Lunenburg Parish, Richmond County oc re es. es Ret P tee Ae rial nate eilelane a sient 11 00 
Association, St. Mary’s Parish, Caroline County............. Pca d tetera tec ec se Seas S oct 88 72 
Meagriatmest ral) SC DUrch, AlCXANCTig.. 0.0.6.5. i eter c ec ets owecesecccseccsecs 53 00 
NORTH CAROLINA. 

Monthly Meeting, St. James’s Parish, Wilmington..............cc cess seen eeereeeeenes 42 00 
SOUTH CAROLINA. 

Ladies’ Missionary Society, Beaufort............... FOTO OCI Te SSRI oo hie dso 3 213 00 
Sewing Society, Holy Trinity Chapel, Grahamville.................secceeeee eee te eens 50 00 
Female Working Society, St. Andrew’s Parish................eeeceeeseeeee QOe Ne ie be 80 00 
Ladies’ Missionary Association, St. Helena Island............. ccc ce eee e eee ee eee eees 50 00 
GEORGIA. 

Female Auxiliary Society, Christ Church, Savannah A PRGA oe nee eeeceenees ates ees etait oa 103 50 

ALABAMA. 
PadiesuG@ircle Of ANGUStry, TUSCAIOOSS......5.61- 6.0 ce obec teccndonvcees Bisteriialelers'e sia sit in! stants 5 00 
OHIO, 


Female Auxiliary Society, Columbus........ ... Mea eee eae euch Celsiae'c eee sioyh estan 22 50 


244 Officers of the Society. 1884, 
Auxiliary Missionary Society, St. James’s Parish, Boardman....... ......... .. iG ' 13 00 
Missionary Association of Delaware and Berkshire Counties..............-...+ee-ee0- 42 00 
Association, Kenyon College. ........ccci cee l eee cece cee e cee seen een eens cums ceesccaoes 20 00 
Missionary Association, St. Paul’s Church, Cincinmati..............0. 0+ secesceserves 20 00 
MICHIGAN. | 
Auxiliary Missionary Society, St. Paul’s Church, Detroit..............05 Pe icc 341 00 
Auxiliary Missionary Society, Trinity Church, Monro......... 282 0 hese peeemls a SOR nie 40 00 
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. 
President : 
Right Rev. WILLIAM WHITE, D.D. 
Vice-Presidents : 
Rt. Rev. A. V. Griswold, D.p., Rt. Rev. B. T. Onderdonk, D.p., 
ss R. C. Moore, D.D., 83 L. 8. Ives; D:D, 
s N. Bowen, D.D., sf B. B. Smith, p. D,, 
a P. Chase, D.D.. “s J. H. Hopkins, D.D., 
tt T. C. Brownell, p.p., A C. P. McIlvaine, D.p., 
os H. U. Onderdonk p.p., J G. W. Doane, D.D., 
oe William Meade, D.p., e J. H. Otey, D.D. 
ee William M. Stone, p.p., 
Secretary : 
Rey. P. Van Pelt. 
Treasurer : 
Mr. Thomas Robins. 
Auditor : 
Mr. C. N. Bancker. 
Executive Committee : 
Rt. Rey. William White, D.p., ex officio, Rev. J. W. James, 
H. U. Onderdonk, p.p., “ Mr. P. H. Nicklin, 
Rey. P. Van Pelt, ve ~ ©. Wheeler, 
Mr. Thomas Robins, L L. R. Ashhurst, 
C. N. Bancker, S J. C. Biddle, 
Rey. G. T. Bedell, p.p., J. Lex, 
8. H. Tyng, pD.p., Dr. C. Morris, 
G. A. Smith, J. Wiltbank. 
G. Boyd, 


Trustees of the Permanent Fund : 
Messrs. C. N. Bancker, J. Read, and T. Robins. 


Directors Chosen, 1882: 

Rev. J. Clapp, 

8. Greenleaf, Esq., 
8. Pierce, Esq., 


Maine, . : 
oe . . ° ry 
New Hampshire, . 5 A : : 
Massachusetts, . ‘ Mile? Lipa” Rev. J. 8. Stone, 
Vermont, . : <a Gs A. Bronson, 
+s : : ‘ : : ‘ - Carlton Chase, 


ea 


\ 


Oe ee ee ee ee 


Officers and Members. 


Connecticut, 
(79 2 


New York, . ; ‘ ; 
tc 


New Jersey, . 


Pennsylvania, 
ce 


- Delaware, - 


Rt. 


Maryland, 
Virginia, 
(ie 


South Carolina, 


Rey. J. Abercrombie, D.D,, t 
T. G, Allen, + 

E. Andrus, Esq., + 

Rev. H. Anthon, pD.p., t 
G. Boyd, t 
F. Beasley, D.D., t 
G. T. Bedell, p.p., t 
A. L. Baury, t+ 
D. Butler, D.D, t 
S. C. Brinckle, t¢ 
C. Burroughs, t 
8S. Bowman, 

J. Bowdoin, Esq., t 

E. Burd, Esq., t 

Mrs. M. Banyer, 

Rev. R. F. Cadle, 
B. C. Cutler, ¢ 
R. B. Croes, t 
John Croes, t 
J. Chapman, t 
F. H. Cuming, t 
Thomas Crumpton, 
H. Croswell, 
William Croswell, 
Cariton Chase, 
N. B. Crocker, D.p., 
J. A. Clarke, 

Mrs. H. Cutler, 

Rev. W. H. DeLancey, D.p., t 
J. M. Douglass, 
Rev. G. W. Doane, D.D., t 

Rey. C. M. Dupuy, 


Patrons: 


Rey. J. H. Hicks, 
F. L. Hawks, D.D., 
J, PK Henstew: D.D, f 
J. F. Hull, t 
Rt. Rev. J. H. Hopkins, p.p., t 
Rey. R. A. Henderson, t 
F. W. Hatch, 
R. D. Hall, 


Rt. 


Rey. N. 8. Wheaton, pD.D., 


H. Croswell, 
F. L. Hawks, D.p., 
Floyd Smith, Esq., 
Rey. G. Y. Morehouse, 
J. C. Clay, 
G. A. Smith, 
8. H. Tyng, D.p., 
C. N. Bancker, Esq., 
J. C. Biddle, Esq., 
C. Wheeler, Esq., 
L. R. Ashurst, Esq., 
Paul Beck, Esq., 
Rey. I. Pardee, 
W. E. Wyatt, D.p., 


H. W. Ducachet, M.D. 


J. P. McGuire, 
C. E. Gadsden, D.D. 


D. Higbee, 
J. C. Herbert, Esq., t 
Rev. L. 8. Ives, p.D., ¢ 
Rev. William Jarvis, 
Thomas Jackson, 
Wm. G. Jackson, 
S. F. Jarvis, p.p., t 
W. Jackson, t 
J. E. Jackson, 
8. Johnson t (deceased), 
J. W. James, 
8. R. Johnson, 
W. L. Johnson, 
W. Jay, Esq., t 
Mrs. A. Jay, 
Rey. George Kirk, 
R. Keith, D,p., 
J. Kemper, D.D., ¢ 
F. 8. Key, Esq., t 
Mrs. E. Kohne, t+ 
Rev. W. F. Lee, t¢ 
E. R. Lippit, 
W. H. Lewis, 
Mrs. C. Lawrence, 


245 


246 


Mrs. 8. Dehone, 


Rey. A. Eaton, D.D., t 
T. Edson, t 
M. Eastburn, 
Samuel Fuller, Jr., 
J. P. Fenner, 

Rt. Rev. A. V. Griswold, D.D., 
Tete On L Good 
Mrs. Gregory (deceased), 


Rey. D. McElheran, 
A. C. Magruder, Esq., t 
Joseph Marsh, Esq., t 
Dr. C. Morris, t 
Mrs. M. Markoe, 
Rey. 8. Nichols, t+ 
B. G. Noble, + 
P. H. Nicklin, Esq., t 
E. A. Newton, Esq., t 
Rey. A. Potter, t 
S. W. Presstman, t 
8. B. Paddock, t 
Smith Pyne, 
John Pintard, t 
George Pomeroy, f 
Rey. I. Pardee, 
W. R. Rees, 
W. Richmond, t 
J. J. Robertson, t¢ 
J. Rodney, t 


Mr. 


~ 


Mrs. 
Rev. G. A. Shelton, 
R. Sherwood, t 
Rt. Rev. B. B. Smith, p.p., t 


George Sheets, 


S. Russell (deceased), 


Rt. 


“Mrs. 


Life Members. 


Jacob Lex, Esq., 

Rev. R. S. Mason, D.D., t 

J. Morss, D.D., t 

G. Y. Morehouse, 

C. P. Mellvaine, D.D., t 
J. Milnorsm pe 


Rey. 
Rey. 


1834, 


J. Montgonseg D.D. t (ae d), 


Wm. C. Mead, D.p., t 
R. U. Morgan, t 
G. C. Shepard, 
J. S. Stone, 
H. Sayres, 
8. Seabury, 
A. Searle, 
Mr. J. Shatzel, 


Rey. 8. H. Turner, D.D., t 


E. Tuckerman, Esq., t 
Rey. P. Van Pelt, + 
R. Wheeler, 
H. J. Whitehouse, 
J. R. Walker, t 


C. H. Wharton, p.p. + (dec’d) 


S. Wheaton, 

G. Weller, t 

B. Wilson, D.D., t 

G. Woodbridge, 

J. M. Wainwright, D.D., 
Mrs. A. M. Wainwright. 


All the Bishops of the Church are, ex officio, members of the Board of Directors. 
Those whose names are marked with a + in the above list are also (by the payment 
of $50 previous to August, 1829), according to the Fifth Article of the Constitution, 


members of the Board. 


Rev. Jasper Adams, 
Ephraim Adams, 
Mr. Robert B. Aertsen, 
Elisha Abel, 
Mrs. E. Ashurst, 
Rev. 8. G. Bragg, 
Jos. M. Brown, 
William Bryant, 
Rt. Rev. N. Bowen, D.D., 
Rev. J. Bristed, 
Levi Bull, 
William Barlow, 


Life Members : 


H. M. Campbell, Esq., 

Mr. Jacob Diller, 

8. J. Donaldson, Esq., 
Rev. B. Dorr, 

Mr. George Dearth, 
Rev. M. Eastburn, 
Miss Mary G. Emlen, 
Mrs. C. Finney, 

Mr. John Farr, 

John Gray, 
Rey. C. E. Gadsden, D.D., 
H. Gibbes, 


1834, 


Annual Subscribers. 


Rev. F. W. Beasley, 
A. Bronson, 
EK. Y. Buchanan, 
Dan. Burhans, D.D., 
Mr. Samuel B. Babcock, 
Hilary Baker, 
Samuel Cox, 
James Cox, 
Mrs. E. A. Clarkson, 
Rey. Orange Clark, 
M. B. Chase, 
C. Colton, 
C. C. Cuyler, D.D., 
M. H. Henderson, 
G. F. Haskins, 
EK. H. Huntington, 
Mrs. R. H. Hopkins, 
Mr. Benjamin Hall, 
Lieut. N. 8. Harris, v.s. a., 
Rey. Henry R. Judah, 
George Jones, 
Lot Jones, 
Bethel Judd, 
Mr. Israel Kinsman, 
Theo. Keese, 


Lieut. Z. J. D. Kinsley, v. 8: a., 


Rey. M. H. Lance, 
A. C. Morgan, 
Jos. Muenscher, 
Intrepid Morse, 
Mr. Wm. Muenscher, 
John W. Mulligan, Esq., 
Mr. Wm. Musgrave, 
Rey. J. McElroy, 
Mr. G. B. Munro, 
Rev. S. Nash, 
Miss Julia Nicklin, 
Rev. H. P. Powers, 
R. Prout, 
W.S. Perkins, 
W. T. Potter, 
Mrs. H. R. Potter, 
M. A. Petigrue, 


Mr. J. P. LaBruce (deceased), 


Rev. C. H. Alden, 

Mr. James M. Aertsen, 
Miss Aertsen, 

Mrs. M. A. Allen, 

Mr. C. N. Bancker, 

J. C. Biddle, Esq., 


Thomas 8. Grimkie, Esq., 
Mrs. E. Gates, 
Rey. J. M. Guion, 


Mrs. Eliza Grant (deceased), 


Rev. G. E.: Hare, 
I. W. Hallam, 
R. A. Hallam, 
Mr. J. M. Head, 
Thomas Highman, 
Hon. D. E. Huger, 
Wm. Heyward, Esq., 
Mrs. M. Gibson, 
Rey. A. B. Hard, 
Mr. Thomas Ryerson, 
Gil. Robertson, 
J. Rapeley, 
Mrs. E. Rapeley, 
(Capt.) Read, U. 8. N., 
J. Rush, 
John Read, Esq., 
Rey. J. Spencer, D.D., 
Mr. Silas Sprague, 
Rev. H. Smith, 
T. Strong, 
Mr. H. Sybert, 
Rey. 8. C. Stratton, 
Mr. William Stavely, 
Miss E. Turner, 
J. B. Turner, 
C. C. Trowbridge, Esq., 
Miss Eliz. M. Turner, 
Hester Turner, 
Rey. N. 8. Wheaton, D.D., 
Mrs. E. Waters, 
Mr. F. M. Weston, 
Mrs. Waring (deceased), 
Mr. 8.. Warren, 
Nathan Warren, 
John White, 
F. Withers, 
R. A. Withers, 


R. F. Withers (deceased), 


J. Ward (deceased), 
H. Whiting, Esq. 


Annual Subscribers : 


Mrs. Ann Halberstadt, 
Miss Holtzbecker, 
Rey. C. Hanckell, 

Mr. J. Hunter, 

Miss P. Lewis, 

Mr, Z. Locke, 


247 


248 Special Meeting of the Board of Directors 1885. 
8. Breck, Esq., Dr. J. K. Mitchell, 
Mr. D. B. Carter, Mrs. A. Middleton, 
Wm. Collet, Esq., Dr. C. Morris, 
Mr. C. Comegys, Mr. Wm. H. N ewbold, 
Rev. Pierce Connelly, Professor D. Oliver, 
Miss C. Clark, Hon. C. C. Pinckney, 
Mr. John Donaldson, Mrs. J. Scott, 
Miss M. Donaldson, Rey. G. A. Smith, 
Rey. C. Dunn, Miss L. Smith, 
Master W. Dehon, Mrs. A. M. Tilghman, 
Master T. Dehon, Mrs. J. J. Tschudy, 
Mrs. Emlen, Mr. John Welsh, 
Mr. J. W. Foote, Charles Wheeler, Esq., 
G. W. Freeman, Esq., Rev. E. M. P. Wells, 
M. Greenleaf, Esq., Rev. P. L. Whipple, 
Rey. Benjamin Hale, Mrs. Dr. Samuel Wilson, 
Mrs. Benjamin Hale, Miss M. Yeates, 
Mrs. 8. Haskell, Miss C. Yeates. 
TREASURER’S ACCOUNT. 
Abstract of Receipts from May 18, 1833, to May 18, 1884: 

For General Mission Account...) ./.. 2.32... s <= see $7,312 96 
Domestic Mission Account..)... 2... . 0.5. eles eee 6,500 90 
Foreign Mission Account... 00.0. 0222). « «le siegeleate ee 699 79 
Greek «Mission 2Account.<....00:4 ieee «gece ie stale ee ee 6,788 26 
Green Bay Mission Account, .)........ => +s.) sss ieee 2,993 66 
Florida Mission Account’. <..5/.0. a's a «ccs ss ss tle 6 diths tenn 1,480 64 
Liberia Mission Account. 2.2.5 0... 0's +e» + geeiele ois le: tush nanan vt a Ef 

$26,007 98 
BALANCES. Dr. CR. 

Green Bay Mission Account. 9. (..29).%)..0..-0 semen en . . $12,912 33 

Florida Mission Account:.) .. A708... 2. 2 eee eee 1,248 79 

General Mission Account.) ... .c.0 ces soe epee $14,002 73 

Domestic Mission Account, ..2.. ct... «cee se eaten 2,542 91 

Foreign Mission Account... ............+e2sss-ccn enum 2,178 40 

Greek Mission AcGcount...c 05. 's 1. 02's + «sibel rete ete mnenere 2,296 65 

Liberia Mission Account......... GTR eee eee ae 300 44 

Balance in hand too oki. +o «0.05 os wie sence Taner 7,210 O1 


$21,371 13 $21,371 13 


SPECIAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 


A Special Meeting of the Board of Directors was held at the 
Missionary Rooms, Philadelphia, Tuesday, August 18, 1835. 


‘ 


1835. Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 249 


Present, The Rt. Rev. Bishops White, Moore, Onderdonk, 
Mellvaine, Smith, and Doane; the Rey. Drs. Milnor, Henshaw, 
Abercrombie, Kemper, Gadsden, Burroughs, Beasley, Tyng, 
Hawks, Mason, and Mead; the Rev. Messrs. Chase, Boyd, Clay, 
Morehouse, Lee, William Jackson, Pardee, Rodney, Allen, 
Cuming, William Richmond, and Henderson; Messrs. Wheeler, 
Biddle, Robins, Magruder, Bancker, Dr. Morris, and the Secre- 
tary. 

Bishop White presided, and opened the meeting with prayer. 

The Board took order as follows: 

Fixing the place and hour of the Annual Meeting, to be held 
on Thursday, the 20th inst., in St. Andrew’s Church, at half past 
four o’clock p.m. 

The Annual Sermon before the Board to be preached in St. 
James’s Church, on Thursday evening, the 20th inst., and a Com- 
mittee appointed to make arrangements for the same. 

The following Resolution was adopted: 


“Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to present to the 
General Convention a request from this Board, that the sessions of 
the Convention be so arranged as to afford the Society and the 
Board of Directors time for the discharge of the duties which devolve 
upon them.” 


The Rev. Drs. Tyng and Mead, and the Secretary, were 
appointed the Committee. 
On motion of Mr. Wheeler, it was 


“Resolved, That a Committee be appointed, who shall retire and 
report to this meeting what business will be in order to be consid- 
ered at the present meeting of the Board.” 


Mr. Wheeler, Drs. Milnor and Kemper, the Rev. Mr. Boyd, 
and Mr. Bancker were appointed the Committee. 

The Committee, having conferred together, reported as fol- 
lows: | 


“The Committee appointed to report what business will be in 
order, etc., report that they recommend : 


74 
66 ae | Belonging to the Domestic Department. 


250 Annual Meeting of the Board of Dvrectors. 1885, 


“3d. The subject of the reorganization of the Society.” 


The first two subjects having been disposed of, on motion of 
the Rev. Dr. Milnor, it was 


“Resolved, That the meeting do now proceed to the consideration 
of the Third Article, recommended by the Committee appointed to 
suggest business demanding the attention of the Board,” 


On motion of the same, it was 


“Resolved, That a Committee of seven be appointed to consider 
and report whether any and what measures should be adopted for 
the more efficient organization of this Society, and the future con- 
duct of its concerns.” 


The Rt. Rev. Bishops Doane and Mcllvaine; the Rev. Drs. 
Milnor, Henshaw, Beasley, and Kemper, and Mr. Magruder 
were appointed the Committee. 

Ail other proceedings at this meeting relate Bpeciaay to 
Domestic Missions. 


ANNUAL MEETING. 


Tne AnnvuaL MEeEtine ofr THE Boarp or Drrectors was held — 


in St. Andrew’s Church, Philadelphia, on Thursday, August 20, 
1835, at half past four o’clock p.m. 

Present, The Rt. Rev. Bishops Brownell, H. U. Onderdonk, 
Meade, Stone, Smith, McIlvaine, Doane, and Otey; the Rev. 
Drs. Abercrombie, Milnor, Wheaton, Hawks, Wyatt, Henshaw, 
Kemper, Mason, Tyng, and Potter; the Rev. Messrs. Chase, Du- 
cachet, Croswell, Clay, G. A. Smith, Allen, Boyd, Cuming, Hen- 
derson, Wm. Jackson, Lee, Morgan, Presstman, Richmond, 
‘Rodney, Pardee; the Messrs. Newton, Magruder, Floyd Smith, 
Bancker, Wheeler, Biddle, Ashhurst, and Dr. Morris. 

In the absence of the President, the Rt. Rev. T. C. Brownell, 
one of the Vice-Presidents, took the chair, and opened the meet- 
ing with prayer. 

On motion of the Secretary, it was 


1835. Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 251 


“Resolved, To dispense with the calling of the names ot the Di- 
rectors, 4 quorum being present, and the reading of the Minutes of 
the Annual Meeting, held in May, 1834.” 


The Minutes of the Special Meeting of the Board, held on 
Tuesday, the 18th inst., and the Report of the proceedings of 
the Executive Committee for the last fifteen months, were then 
read by the Secretary. 

On motion of the Secretary, it was 


“Resolved, That the Report of the Executive Committee be 
referred to a Committee, to prepare from it, and other documents to 
be referred to, the Annual Report of the Board of Directors.” 


The Rev. Drs. Potter and Kemper, and Floyd Smith, Esq., 
- were appointed the Committee. 

The Treasurer having presented his account, it was, on motion, 
referred to a Committee for examination, and to report thereon. 

Messrs. Newton and Magruder were appointed the Com- 
mittee. 

On motion of Bishop Doane, it was 


“Resolved, To adjourn until the 21st inst., at half past eight 
o’clock a.m.” 


St. Anprew’s Cuvurcu, August 21st, 1835, 84 a.m. 

The Board met. Present, The Rt. Rev. Bishops Griswold, 
Moore, Brownell, Meade, Smith, Doane, McIlvaine, and Hop- 
kins; the Rev. Drs. Henshaw, Tyng, Kemper, Hawks, Milnor, 
Potter, Gadsden, Wheaton, Croswell, Wyatt, Burroughs, Mason, 
and Wilson; the Rev. Messrs. Boyd, G. A. Smith, Chase, More- 
house, Clay, Pardee, Allen, Cuming, Henderson, Jackson, Lee, 
Morgan, Presstman, W. Richmond, Henderson, Rodney, Walker, 
Ducachet, Ten Broeck, Brinkle, and McGuire; the Messrs. 
Robins, Bancker, Wheeler, Ashhurst, Biddle, Smith, Magruder, 
Newton, and Dr. Morris. 

The Rt. Rev. Bishop Meade in the chair. 

After prayers by the Chairman, the Minutes of the last 
meeting were read. 

On motion of the Secretary, it was 


252 Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 1895. 


“Resolved, That the Rey. R. A. Henderson be appointed Assist- 
ant Secretary.” 


On motion of the Secretary, it was 


“ Resolved, That a Committee of three be appointed to exam- 
ine the records, books, papers, etc., of the Society, and report 
thereon.” 


The Rev. Dr. Henshaw, the Rev. Mr. Morehouse, and Mr. 
Magruder, were appointed the Committee. 

The Secretary presented, in compliance with the 10th Article 
of the Constitution, a general view of the proceedings of the 
Board since the meeting of the Society in 1832, which, on motion 
of the same, was referred to the Committee, to whom was 
committed the Report of the Executive Committee. 

The Secretary presented sundry applications for Missionary 
appointments, etc., which, on motion of the same, were referred 
to a Committee of three. 

The Rt. Rev. Bishop McIlvaine, and the Rev. Drs. Milnor 
and Kemper, were appointed the Committee. 

The Rt. Rev. Bishop Doane, on behalf of the Committee 
appointed to consider and report whether any, and what, meas- 
ures should be adopted for the more efficient organization of the 
Society and the future conduct of its concerns, presented the 
following Report: 


“The Committee appointed by the Board of Directors of the Domestic and 
Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United 
States of America, at their late Special Meeting, to consider and report 
‘Whether any, and what, measures should be adopted for the more efficient 
organization of this Society and the future conduct of its concerns, unani- 
mously present the following Report as the result of their most serious con- 
sideration. They do not profess to give the reasons for the several measures 
which they propose, believing that these will be fully and most forcibly sug- 
gested in the discussions of the Board. They do not attempt the full detail of 
necessary arrangements, inasmuch as these must be dependent on the ultimate 
course which the Board may adopt. All that they now propose is to present 
fundamental principles; the immediate adoption of which, they respectfully, 
yet most earnestly, recommend. 

“Tn the first place, then, after the most mature deliberation, and much con- 
ference with the friends of the Society from various parts of the Church, they 


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1339. Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 253 


are decidedly of the opinion that the best interests of religion and of man 
require an immediate and extensive change in the mode in which the Church 
has hitherto discharged the great Missionary trust committed to her by the 
Divine Saviour, ‘to preach the Gospel unto every creature.’ 

“ As the mode of operations which they propose to substitute for that which 
has hitherto prevailed, the Committee unanimously recommend that the Church 
herself, in dependence on her divine Head, and for the promotion of His glory, 
undertake and carry on, in her character as the Church, and as ‘ The Domestic 
and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the 
United States of America, the work of Christian Missions; for the accom- 
plishment of which purpose, they recommend the following alterations in the 
Constitution : 

“IT. That the General Convention, as the representative of the whole 
Protestant Episcopal Church in these United States, be the constituted organ 
for the prosecution of this work. 

“TI, That at the present meeting of the General Convention there be elected, 
by a concurrent vote, on the nomination of a joint Committee of the two 
Houses, a Board of thirty members, to be called ‘The Board of Missions of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America,’ to which shall 
be entrusted, in the recess of the Genera] Convention, the supervision of the 
General Missionary operations of the Church ; with power, during such recess, 
to fill any vacancies in their number which may occur. Of this Board the 
Committee recommend, 

“1, That all the Bishops shall be, ev-officio, members. 

«2. That the presiding Bishop shall be the President, and that at all its meet- 
ings, in the absence of the presiding Bishop, the senior Bishop present shall 
preside. In the absence of the Bishops, the Board shall elect a President pro 
tempore. 

«3. That such persons as, by the payment of money, are now members of 
the Board of Directors of the Society, shall b> members of the Board of Mis- 
sions, it being understood that this privilege is not to be extended, but to cease 
with those who now enjoy it. 

“TII. The Board of Missions shall meet annually on................0c0e0% 
iy ees gies wir 6 6 ce 6 wl shee Sioee were ets for the trans- 
action of such business as shall be committed to it; and shall also meet in the 
week preceding the meeting of the General Convention, and at its place of 
meeting, for the purpose of preparing the Triennial Report to the Convention. 
A special meeting of the Board may be called in such way as shall be provided 
hereafter. Ten members shall form a quorum. 

“TV. The Board shall have power to make By-laws for its own government, 
and for the government of its Committees. 

“V. The Board, as soon as may be after it has been constituted, shall pro- 
ceed to appoint seven persons as a Committee for Domestic Missions, and seven 
other persons as a Committee for Foreign Missions. The Bishops shall be, 
ex-officio, members of both Committees. When vacancies occur in either of the 
Committees, during the recess of the Board, they may be filled by the Com- 
mittees respectively, subject to the approval of the Board at its next meeting. 


254. Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 1835. 


“1, To the Committees of the Board thus constituted shall be referred, in 
their respective fields, the whole executive administration of the General Mis- 
sionary department of the Church, subject to the provisions of the Board ; the 
Committee to make reports of all their proceedings to the Board of Missions, 
at its Annual Meeting. 

“2. The Committee for Domestic Missions shall meet weekly in the city of 
New York, and the Committee for Foreign Missions shall meet weekly i in the 
city of Philadelphia. Each Committee, besides such other officers and agents 
as they may deem proper (to all of whom they shall be authorized to pay 
suitable salaries), shall appoint a Secretary and General Agent, who shall be 
the Executive Officer of the Committee, and, ex-officio, a member, to collect 
information, to conduct its correspondence, to devise and recommend plans of 
operation, and, in general, to execute all the purposes of the Board in his 
respective sphere, submitting all his measures, before their adoption, to the 
Committee by whom he is appointed, for their approval or disapproval. 

“Tn connection with this outline of fundamental provisions, the Committee 
unanimously recommend the following as general principles for the direction 
of the Board: 

“TI, The Missionary field 4 is always to be regarded as one, THE WORLD—the 
terms Domestic and Foreign being understood as terms of locality, adopted for 
convenience. Domestic Missions are those which are exercised within, and 
Foreign Missions are those which are exercised without, the territory of the 
United States. | 

“TI. The appeal of the Church, through the Board, for the support of Mis- 
sions, is made expressly to all baptized persons, as such, and on the ground of 
their baptismal vows. 

“TIT. The reliance of the. Church for carrying on its Missionary se 
beyond the direct operation of the Board, and its Committees, and their officers, 
is mainly on the parochial organization, each parish being regarded as a Mission- 
ary Association, and its Pastor as the Agent of the Board, for Jesus’ sake. It 
is not designed, by anything which is here said, to discourage existing Mission- 
ary Associations. 

“TV. It is especially recommended that the contributions of the members 
of the Church to the support of Missions be made, so far as may be convenient, 
upon some plan of systematic charity, that their permanent continuance may 
be the more relied on. There is, of course, no discouragement of any other 
acts of benevolence to which the Lord may move the hearts of His people in 
this most holy cause. 

“V. In addition to the general agencies constituted by the Board, local 
agents may from time to time be appointed by either of the Committees, who 
shall consider themselves especially instructed to avoid all appearance of com- 
petition between the Domestic and Foreign operations of the Board, and also 
to encourage the support of Missions upon Christian principles, by the convic- 
tion of the judgment and engagement of the affections, rather than by special 
appeals to local interests or transient excitements, 

“The Committee desire to call attention, in an especial manner, to the sub- 
ject of a Missionary paper in the Church. Should the proposed organization 


1898. Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 255 


be adopted, they would recommend that its establishment and direction be 
committed to the Board of Missions—that it be edited under their direction for 
the promotion of the whole object contemplated by their Constitution, and 
committed respectively to the two Committees for Domestic and Foreign Mis- 
sions. Such a periodical, conducted with discretion and ability, and imbued 

with the true and abiding fervor of the Missionary spirit, would be received 
with avidity, would attain at once to a large circulation, would yield a hand- 
some profit to the Board, and, with the blessing of the eee and Holy Spirit, 
would do incalculable good. 

“The Committee are anxious to be understood that they do not present this 
as a full report, but rather as an outline of the plan which they propose. 
Should its principles be adopted by the Board, they are capable of being com- 
mended to the Church, the Committee confidently believe, by arguments which 
cannot be set aside. In conclusion, they invoke for the Directors and for the 
Society, in the consideration of this great subject,and in the prosecution of 
their whole momentous work, the guidance and protection of Him who has 
promised to be with His own Missionary Society, the Apostolical Church, 
‘always, even unto the end of the world.’ 

“ All which is respectfully submitted by the Committee, 


“ GEORGE W. DOANE, JACKSON KEMPER, 
CHARLES P, McILVAINE, FREDERICK BEASLEY, 
JAMES MILNOR, A. C. MAGRUDER.” 


J. P. K. HENSHAW, 


On motion of the Rev. Dr. Hawks, it was 
“Resolved, That the Report be printed.” 
On motion of Bishop Doane, it was 


“ Resolved, That the Triennial Sermon, before the Society, be 
preached on Monday evening, the 24th inst., at St. Stephen’s 
Church.” 


On motion of Mr. Newton, it was 


“Resolved, That a respectful request be presented to the General 
Convention, that when it adjourn, it will adjourn to Monday, the 
24th inst., to give time to this Board for its discussions.” 


On motion of the same, it was 


“ Resolved, That a Committee of five be appointed to carry the 
above into effect.” 


The Rt. Rev. Bishops Griswold and Brownell, the Rev. 
Drs. Milnor and Kemper, and Mr. Newton, were appointed the 
Committee. 


256 Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 1835. 


On motion of Dr. Milnor, it was 


“ Resolved, That the Chairman of the Committee on the reorgan- 
ization of the Society be requested to state to the Board the grounds 
upon which the Committee have proceeded in the discharge of their 
duty.” 


Bishop Doane, as Chairman of the Committee, responded to 
the call, and occupied the attention of the Board until the hour 
of the meeting of the General Convention; when, upon motion 
of the Rev. Dr. Milnor, it was 


“ Resolved, That the Board adjourn until half past four o’clock 
this afternoon.” 


Fripay, August 21—4¢$ p.m. 

The Board met. Present, The Right Rev. Bishops Gris- 
wold, Moore, Brownell, Smith, McIlvaine, Doane, Otey, Meade, 
and B. T. Onderdonk; the Rev. Drs. Henshaw, Milnor, Wyatt, 
Croswell, Kemper, Tyng, Hawks, Potter, Wheaton, Mason, Aber- 
crombie, and Burroughs; the Rev. Messrs. Boyd, Morehouse, 
Clay, Allen, Cuming, Jackson, Lee, Morgan, Presstman, Rod- 
ney, Richmond, Pardee, Ten Broeck, Walker, Henderson, Smith, 
Chase, and Stone; Messrs. Robins, Bancker, Wheeler, Newton, 
Magruder, and Dr. Morris. 

The Rt. Rev. Bishop Brownell in the chair. 

Dr. Milnor, on behalf of the Committee appointed to ask for 
an adjournment of the General Convention until Monday, the 
24th inst., reported that the Committee had attended to this 
duty, and that both the House of Bishops, and that of Clerical 
and Lay Deputies, had determined to comply with the request ~ 
of the Board. : 

Dr. Milnor moved that the report of the Committee on the 
reorganization of the Society be taken up for consideration, and 
that it be read by paragraphs. 

Dr. Potter moved a postponement of Dr. Milnor’s resolution, 
for the purpose of offering a substitute; but having subsequently 
withdrawn his resolution, the question came up upon Dr. Milnor’s 
resolution, which was adopted. 

The first paragraph of the Report was then read, after which 


1885. Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 297 


several members of the Board expressed their opinions upon the 
principle therein involved. 7 
On motion of Dr. Hawks, it was 


“ Resolved, To refer the Report to the Triennial Meeting of the 
Society, and that the Society meet on Saturday, the 22d inst., at nine 
o’clock a.m.” 


On motion of Dr. Milnor, it was 


“ Resolved, That the Board adjourn until Saturday, the 22d inst., 
at half past eight a.m.” 


SaturpDay, August 22, 84 a.m. 
The Board met. Present, The Rt. Rev. Bishops White, Moore, 
Mellvaine, Doane, Meade, and Otey; the Rev. Drs. Wheaton, 
Milnor, Croswell, Potter, Henshaw, Tyng, Wyatt, and Mason; 
the Rey. Messrs. Ducachet, Clay, Cuming, Richmond, Rodney, 


Henderson, Chase, Boyd, Stone, Morehouse, Allen, Smith, Jack- 


son, Lee, Morgan, Richmond, and Rodney; Messrs. Wheeler, 
F. Smith, Biddle, Bancker, Magruder, Morris, and Tuckerman. 
Bishop White presided, and opened the meeting with prayer. 
The Minutes of the last meeting were read. | 
Rev. Dr. Potter, on behalf of the Committee appointed to 
prepare, from the Annual Report of the Executive Committee, the 
Annual Report of the Board of Directors, presented the follow- 
ing report :. 


“The subscribers, having been directed by the Board of Direc- 
tors to prepare, from the Report of the proceedings of the Execu- 
tive Committee, an annual report, to be made by this Board to the 
Church, beg leave respectfully to report : 

“That they would recommend the adoption of the Report read 
by the Secretary on the 20th inst., as being in substance the Report 
of the Directors, the necessary verbal alterations being made in 
order to adapt it to this purpose. They would suggest, however, 
the propriety of omitting one or two clauses in a communication 
made to the Committee by the Rev. Dr. Robertson, and of adding 
the following passages, viz. : 

“j. A note in regard to the sums received by the Treasurer from 
Massachusetts. : 


ig 


258 Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 1895. 


“9. A passage in relation to the Rev. Mr, Cadle, with a reso- 
lution adopted by the Board on the 18th inst. 

“3, A note in regard to Missionary services among the Indians 
at Duck Creek. 

“4, A note in regard to Mr. Thompson, teacher of the African 
Mission School. 

“They would also recommend that the Treasurer be requested 
to prepare a summary of the receipts and expenditures of each 
principal Mission, and also of the receipts for general purposes, and 
that this summary be introduced into the Report immediately after 
the schedule of moneys which have been received since the last 
Annual Meeting from the several States and Dioceses. They would 
recommend, likewise, that the list of the auxiliaries and of donations, 
and also a copy of the Constitution and By-laws be annexed, with 
the Treasurer’s account, as an appendix, and that the Secretary be 
requested to make such changes in the language as may be necessary, 
prepare the Report for publication, and to superintend the printing. 

‘“¢ Atonzo Potrer, 
JACKSON KEMPER, 
“ Committee.” 


The foregoing having been accepted and agreed to by the 
Board, Dr. Potter, on behalf of the Committee, to whom was 
referred the general view of the proceedings of the Society since 
October, 1832, presented the following: 


“The subscribers, having been charged by another resolution of 
the Board with the duty of examining a summary statement, which 
has been prepared by the Secretary, of the proceedings of the 
Board since the last Triennial Meeting of the Society, would further 
report, that said statement appears to them to meet the require- 
ments of the 10th Article of the Constitution, and that they there- 
fore recommend that it be adopted by this Board, and presented to 
the Society at its Triennial Meeting as a general view of the proceed- 
ings of the Board during the last three years. 

“ Atonzo PotTTER, 
JACKSON KEMPER, 
“ Committee.” 


Dr. Henshaw, on behalf of the Committee appointed to 


1885. Proceedings of the Board of Directors. 259 


examine the records, papers, etc., of the Society, presented the 
following : 


“The Committee appointed to examine the books, records, and 
papers, of the Society, report that they have attended to the duty 
assigned them, so far as their limited time would allow, and find 
them to be kept with a neatness and accuracy which reflect much 
credit upon the skiil and industry of the Secretary. 

“J. P. K. Hensnaw, 
A. C. MacrupeEr, 
“ Committee.” 


The Rt. Rev. Bishop McIlvaine, on behalf of the Committee 
to whom sundry applications for Missionary appointments, etc., 
were committed, presented the following : 


“The Committee, to whom were referred the applications of 
sundry persons desiring to be engaged as Missionaries of the 
Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, report: 

“That on examining the applications they find them so many, 
and several of them of such unusual interest and importance, and 
in general the necessary documentary information accompanying 
them so defective, that in consideration of the temporary appoint- 
ment of this Committee, and the want of. that particular acquaint- 
ance on the part of its members with the applicants, and with the 
past and present views of the Board in relation to many of the 
objects contemplated, which would be necessary to a wise and 
cautious action in the premises, the Committee request to be dis- 
charged from the further consideration of said applications, and to 
be permitted to lay the papers on the table of the Board, with a 
recommendation that as soon as possible the Board proceed to 
establish a Missionary station in the province of Texas. 

“¢ All which is respectfully submitted. 

“©, P. McItvarne, 
“ Chairman.” 


On motion of Dr. Milnor, it was 


“ Resolved, That the thanks of this Board be presented to the 
Rey. Dr. Tyng for his sermon before the Board on Thursday 
evening last.” 


260 Report of the Board of Directors. 1886. 


There being no other business before the Board, it adjourned 
sine die. » | 
Wim Wurrn, President. 
Prrer Van Pett, Secretary. 


ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, ADOPTED AT THE 
MEETING OF THE BOARD, AUGUST 21, 1835. 


“In presenting a general view of the state and progress of the 
Society since ‘their last meeting, the Board of Directors are happy 
to report that both its Domestic and Foreign concerns have, during 
that interval, advanced in extent and importance. The good hand 
of God has manifestly been upon those intrusted with the manage- 
ment of the affairs of the institution, and indications of His blessing 
upon their exertions have been most signally vouchsafed. 


‘¢PUNDS. 


“From May 13, 1834, to May 13, 1835, there was received the | 


sum of $20,325.88, and from the last-mentioned date to the 19th 
inst., $16,665.06, making the whole amount of contributions for the 
preceding fifteen months, $36,990.94. 


“ Amount contributed by the different States from May 13, 1834, to August 19, 


1835. 
MAING 56. te s6oh2s « Sar Aes 4 $275 15 | North Carolina. ........... $204 48 
New Hampshire. ...... . 2... 299 00) South Carolina....... ... we 2,046 55 
Vermont, . 0. 004.05 esse | 158 BI reongiag eee Saris ieee 102 00 
Massachusetts*.... ...... 1,259 -68 | Florida... Qi 257 50 
Shpode Inisnaes cece ons}. 348 00 [Ohio .<:. 2. eee 601 61 
CONMBCHEOG nea. cee sa 2,284 08'| Kentucky... nai see 170 00 
New Vork «su ates cess on 12,350 82 | Tennessee......-.. Spectestars tira 71 50 
New Jersey « seidcae sc eite ote 1,558 72:1) EL inoiy.).o-. .2. west eee 15 00 
Pennsylvanine i iicnt ovew se 5,648 57 | Indiana........... 6. Ag teeta 5 00 
Dela ware janis sats tps ok 21 00 | Michigan Territory........ 673 35 
Maryland. 2 ccccce8 ons Ss 1,735. 80) Missouri. 222.2) eee a ea 162 15 
District of Columbia....... 506 .57'| Mississippi... v2. <ceaeeen 
VV or Ae one nr ie eee here eras 2,031 52 |. 


* << After the accounts of the Treasurer were closed, there was received 
from Massachusetts, in. addition to the above, the sum of $1,395, which had 
been collected by the Rev. Dr. Potter, during a short visit paid by him ‘as -Agent 
of the Board to the Churches of that State.” 


os — 


a ie cain 77 


2p aees 


1895. Report of the Board of Directors. 261 
“ Receipts and Hxpenditures of Missions. 
Amount Amount 
Received. Expended. 
Seem rene iissiOns- ACCOUNT, .o. 2c caccasccccccceccse $9,847 48 $3,841 07 
Memertic Mission Account: .............c0ccce cece 5,442 23 6,780 32 
Mite te OMISSION ACCOUIL. 5 oo... cases, bh0,e 000s o.08, 00 1,157 57 —— 
Meee 10H) ACCOUNT, ©. 66.2 «0,050.02 0s ee eae . 7,898 14 10,781 32 
Seeummay Mission Account... .........-,..0.. 00005 2,070 04 5,474 70 
Sm TIOMIOR NOCOUMI,. 0... 4.05 ceca cesses ese canes 9,898 63 4,413 43 
Perper s10R ACCOUNT. 6.22. .p sk ec kas seine acne 676 85 15 00 
_ “ Present Responsibilities. 
“The responsibilities of the Society are as follows: 

On account of the Green Bay Mission, about... . .6....,.2..00ternceee $3,000 
a Sor Au CES eR 6,000 
e MR PNPM TOM eo. ccc cee ss heb a cuss cee dec ceees 2,500 
% Bemearonmestic MISSIONS: 50... ac. oe ss oe bedgd nena aes 7,000 
“* RM ETACAth) SUMSSIONG eg cs nk ccs vic ve bla ag eo ase blades cae 1,500 

ae “Incidental Expenses, including the publication of 

CM OMONATU LRECOPG Ms os cols a tales cS wae cess 2,000 — 

$22,500 


“* ADDITIONAL MEMBERS. 


“Since the meeting of the Board in 1834, there has been an 
accession to the list of Annual Subscribers of 7 names, to that of 
Life Members of 32 names, and to that of Patrons of 36 names. 


* AUXILIARY ASSOCIATIONS. 


“The Board are happy to report the following increase of 
Auxiliary Associations: In Maine, 1; Massachusetts, 3; Connect- 
icut, 5; New York, 5; New Jersey, 1; Pennsylvania, 7; Mary- 
land, 2; Virginia, 2; North Carolina, 1; South Carolina, 6; Ohio, 2 ; 
Missouri, 1—Total, 37. 

“* LEGACIES. 


““ A legacy of $50 has been received from. the executor of the 
will of the late Rev. James Montgomery, p.p., of the city of Phila- 
delphia. 

“Another of $100, from the executors of the will of Mrs. Phebe 
Warren, of. Troy, N. Y., devised by her in aid of Missions in the 
Western and Southwestern States. 

* Another of $600, from the executors of the will of Miss Mary 
Cobean Smith, of Reading, Pennsylvania, Sd by her for 
the benefit of as Greek Mission. 


262 Report of the Board of Dvrectors. 1835, 


“ Another of $1,000, from the executor of the will of the Rev, 
Dr. Wharton, of Burlington, N. J., for the general purposes of the 
Society. 

““ MISSIONARY PAPER. 

“Tour thousand copies of the Society’s periodical, The Mission- 
ary Record, have been printed every month during the recess of 
the Board. A few hundred of each number are reserved at the 
Society’s rooms, for the supply of future demands. The remainder 
are regularly distributed among the subscribers to the work, the 
Clergy of the Episcopal Church, and such members of Auxiliary 
Associations whose contributions amount to one dollar per annum. 

‘“‘'The expense of this publication to the Society durmg the last 
twelve months has been about $400. But were the sum thus dis- 
bursed even much more considerable, the Board would consider the 
Society abundantly repaid by the good which its paper is instru- 
mental in accomplishing. 


° SPECIAL AGENTS. 


“In June, 1834, the Rev. Edward Y. Buchanan, late Rector of 
Christ Church, Meadville, Penn., was appointed an Agent of the 
Society for promoting the interests of the institution in the Diocese 
of Pennsylvania, and continued in its service until September fol- 
lowing. 

“In July, 1834, Dr. J. L. Darrow, at that time a student in the 
General Theological Seminary at New York, was appointed an 
Agent for the obtaining of subscribers to The Missionary Record, 
in the State of New York, and served the Society in this capacity 
until October following. 

“In March of the present year, the Executive Committee 
appointed Agents for every State in which the Church has been 
established, to continue in office until the Triennial Meeting of the 
Society, whose duty it should be to visit the different congregations, 
and present to them the claims, operations, etc., of the Society ; 
make collections and obtain subscriptions in aid of its funds; call 
together Auxiliary Associations, and stimulate them to increased 
exertion, and organize institutions of this character in parishes 
where they do not exist. 

“The whole number appointed by the Committee was twenty- 
seven; eight of whom consented to serve, viz. : 

“The Rey. H. J. Whitehouse, p.p., and the Rey. Alonzo Potter, 


1835. Leport of the Board of Directors. 263 
as: 


p.p., of New York; the Rev. J. B. Clemson, and the Rev. James 
May, of Pennsylvania; the Rev. David C. Page, of Kentucky; the 
Rev. John Hall, and the Rev. Ethan Allen, of Ohio; the Rev. 
William N. Lyster, of Michigan. 

“In May last, the Rev. B. C. Cutler, of Brooklyn, L. I., was 
appointed an Agent to visit Lynchburg, Va., during the session of 
the Diocesan Convention at that place, with the view of presenting 
the claims of the Society to the members of the Church there 
assembled. Mr. Cutler kindly consented to discharge the duty thus 
devolved upon him, and executed his trust in a manner highly 
creditable to himself and beneficial to the Society. 

“The following minute, adopted by the Virginia Convention, 
will exhibit the light in which the object of Mr. Cutler’s visit was 
viewed by that body: 


“ “Resolved, unanimously, That this Convention highly appreciate the inten- 
tions of the Executive Committee of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary 
Society in sending a Special Agent to attend the meetings of this body, and to 
present the claims of that very important Society. 

“ «Resolved, That every facility be afforded to the Special Agent in perform- 
ing the duties of his agency. 

“« Resolved, That we cordially welcome fie Rey. Benjamin C. Cutler, of St. 
Ann’s Church, Brooklyn, as the Special Agent of the Executive Committee of 
the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, and recommend him to the kind 
attention and patronage of the Churches,’ 


“Tn the early part of last month, Mr. J. G. Knapp, a student 
of the General Theological Seminary, was appointed an Agent for 
obtaining subscribers to Zhe Missionary Record in the State of 
New York. 


“PLANS IN AID OF THE SOCIETY’S OPERATIONS. 


“The proposal of Simon Greenleaf, Esq., for improving the 
pecuniary condition of the Society by a donation of $50 per annum 
for five years, provided ninety-nine other persons would contribute 
the same amount, not having succeeded according to his expecta- 
tions, he informed the Committee, in October last, that he consid- 
ered himself ‘absolved from any further obligation on that score ;’ 
but at the same time purposed to devote the balance of his sub- 
scription to other religious objects through the agency of the 
Society. | 

“In May, 1834, a citizen of Philadelphia proposed to contribute 


264 Report of the Board of Directors. 1885. 


five dollars to aid our Episcopal brethren at Jacksonville, Ilinois, 
in building a house of worship, provided ninety-nine other indi- 
viduals would subscribe a like amount, Amount as yet raised by 
this plan, $455. 

“In June, 1834, the same individual, having understood that 
$400 were Reeded to secure the building of a hace of worship for 
the Episcopalians at Monrovia, Africa, proposed to give $10 in 
behalf of this object, provided thirty-nine others would each give 
an equal sum. Amount as yet raised by this plan, $105. 


“During the last spring, the Rev. Messrs. Tyng, James, 


5) 


McCoskry, and Suddards, of Philadelphia, communicated to the 
Executive Committee the intention of their respective congrega- 
tions to contribute each the salary of a Missionary, to be stationed 
in one of the Western States. 

“The ‘Young Men’s Auxiliary Education and Missionary Society 
of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York,’ and likewise a 
lay member of St. George’s Church, in the same city, have recently 


signified their readiness to imitate the example of these Churches, 


and authorize the Committee to draw on them quarterly for the 
amount required.” 
*“* GREECE. 


“The letters which have been received from the Society’s Mis- 
sionaries in Greece during the recess of the Board, contain most 
gratifying evidence of the extensive good which has been effected 
by their exertions in that country. Similar testimony has likewise 
been presented in the statements of various respectable individuals, 
both from Europe and America, who have visited Greece, and made 
public their views respecting the Society’s operations in that 
quarter. 

“ Mr, Hill reports that the progress in the School department of 
the Mission has been steadily onward. At alate date the scholars 
under the supervison of himself and Mrs. Hill amounted to nearly 
600, of all ages and both sexes. 

“With respect to this Institution, the Rev. Dr. Whitehouse, of 
Rochester, N. Y., who visited it in the spring of 1834, has thus 
expressed himself: 

“*¢ In the schools all is successful and animating to the friends of 
the Greek cause; and it was with unfeigned astonishment that we 


beheld the results of labors comparatively so short, and exercised, 


under such unpromising circumstances. In every constituent of a 


' 
; 
: 


1885. Report of the Board of Directors. 265 


well-disciplined and instructed school, they would bear an equal com- 
parison with those of the same class in either England or America. 
Strangers have been affected to tears in witnessing the exercises of 
the Infant school, where more than one hundred and fifty little ones, 
whose parents have been the victims of every hardship and oppres- 
sion for years, are brought up in habits in the highest degree fa- 
vorable to their after character, independent of the solid instruction 
that may be imparted. 

¢¢ With the boys’ school, under an interesting young Greek named 
Demetrius Pantazis, we were much pleased. The examinations 
were pursued by a series of questions from the teacher in the 
elements of mechanics, mathematics, astronomy, arithmetic, and in 
ancient Greek, etc., and were answered with great promptitude and 
intelligence. The prevailing feature in all the rooms, was the 
decided interest manifested in the exercises by the children them- 
selves; it appeared more like an indulgence to them to be permitted to 
learn than an irksome task imposed upon them by parental authority. 
At our request, some specimens of writing and composition were 
furnished to us from the boys’ department. Botn the penmanship 
and the matter were entirely independent of assistance and control. 
Some of the compositions are ingenious and spirited ; we inclose 
two or three as a curiosity for your Missionary rooms.’ 

“ As a mark of the respect in which the schools are held by the 
Government of Greece, one of the young girls educated by Mrs. Mill 
has, by its order, been selected to conduct the Government Primary 
Female School at Napoli. And as a further confirmation of the 
favorable views and intentions of Government respecting the 
Mission, it has resolved to place twelve girls under Mrs. Fill’s care, 
with a view to their becoming future teachers, and to maintain them 
at the public expense, 

“Tate communications from Mr. Hill contain the gratifying 
intelligence that this design of the Government has already been 
carried into operation, and that he now has its twelve protégées 
under his roof, whom he is endeavoring to qualify for future useful- 
ness, and to bring up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. 

“The Committee having become sensible that the amount of 
duty and responsibility at present resting upon the Missionaries at 
Athens is altogether disproportioned to their numbers and strength, 
resolved a few months since to send out an additional supply of 
laborers to this station. Accordingly, on the 23d of February last, 


266 Report of the Board of Directors. 1835. 


they appointed Miss Mary Baldwin, of Staunton, Va., an Assistant 
Teacher in the Mission School at Athens, and on the 27th of July 
following, the Rey. Hilliard Bryant, a Missionary to.Athens, to 
perform such duties as may be assigned him by the Rev. Mr. Hill. 
These individuals, it is expected, will embark for Greece about the 
beginning of September. 


“PRESS DEPARIMENT. 


“From letters which have been received from the Rev. Dr. Rob- 
ertson during the present year, it appears that from the establish- 
ment of the Mission up to the 15th of July, 1834, the following 
works have issued from the Society’s presses under his charge: 


Pages.| Copies. Birr 
1. Conversation with a Young Traveller........... 22 | 1,200 26,400 
2. Extracts from a Synopsis on Prayer, etc..........| 12 | 1,200 14,400 
3. Dialogue between two Friends.................<. 28 | 1,500 42,000 
4, Colburn’s Arithmetic......... sehen ee 178 | 1,500 267,000 
5. Jacobs’s Greek Reader, Vol. Ist................ 88 800 70,400 
Gta G i Viiliod se ae A ee 148 | 1,200 171,600 
%. Modern Greek Grammar. . 2... ta5.5 0 eee 122 | 1,800 219,600 
8. Xenophon’s Memorabilia. ......................-| 168 | 2,000 336,000 
9. Plato’s Gorgias and; Apology. 1... 55a 170 | 2,000 | 340,000 
ROBINSON’S SCRIPTURE CHARACTERS. 
10; Adam, Cain, and Abel. } so. 41.4 6e0 6 eee 52 | 2,000 104,000 
It. Enoch and Noahs... 7 isc es Jae eee 46 | 2,000 92,000 
12; 7A braharn 30: 325 2 fsa ae ee ee 7 2,000 142,000 
18. Lot and Melehisedeck. 7 ..6:2.9.5.5 See ee 52 | 2,000 104,000 
14. Isaac and Jacob.¢ ¢2 532 ee eee 95 | 2,000 190,000 
16. Joseph oo. oon os ca on «bcs pipet SL | 2,000 162,000 
16. Address of Prof. Bambas at third annual examin- 
ation of Mr. Hildner’s schools... ............ 7 635 4,445 
17. Address of do, at opening of Mr. Leeves’s school. 5 420 2.100 
18. Coray’s Synopsis of Sacred History............. 44 | 2,000 88,000 
19. Translation of Horne on the Internal Evidences 
of the Inspiration of the Scriptures, by Bambas| 164 | 2,000 | 828,000 
Whole amount in pages: )...4 ., -s seen 2,703,945 


‘‘ Besides these there have been printed 500 copies of a Greek 
Hymn for the schools ; 600 copies of an address of the Bishop of 
Athens on the arrival of the first royal decree, in which the Serip- 
tures are recognized as the foundation of our faith; 300 copies of 
another address of his, by request of Rev. Mr. Hill, and the 
expense of which he has promised to pay; 12 copies of each of 
four inscriptions, in large characters, to be hung round the school- 


; 
i @ 


ce, i. Leport of the Board of Directors. 267 


room; a series of twelve spelling lessons on sheets, five hundred 
being printed of the first, and fifty of each of the others; and a con- 
siderable quantity of tickets of good behavior, progress in studies, 
etc., for the Missionary schools. 

“In the letter which contained this summary view of the opera- 
tions.of the press, Dr. Robertson observes, that there are pious 
individuals in the United States, who may be inclined to object 
to the publication of so many books on human science. But to 
meet such doubts in regard to Greece, he says, in the first place, 
‘That all the Missionaries, without exception, are agreed as to the 
policy of such a course. 2. That the schools could not be otherwise 
sustained, as books, to any extent, cannot otherwise be procured. 
3. That to prepare teachers for other schools, the study of ancient 
Greek is essential, as, without it they cannot properly understand 
their own language, and they could obtain little respect, influence, 
or success. 4. That it is of the utmost importance to those who 
are looking forward to the ministry. 5. That it is nearly as impor- 
tant for those who shall remain laymen, as otherwise they also will 
be unable to understand the services upon which they attend. 
6. That it gives great reputation to our presses; helps to close the 
mouths of opponents, to win influence for ourselves, and to render 
more acceptable our publications of a religious character.’ 

“ After this statement of facts, Dr. Robertson thus expresses 
himself : 

“¢< We shall be as much rejoiced as can be any friend of the 
cause at home, when it shall no longer be necessary for us to pub- 
lish any book not bearing directly on the subject of religion ; 
indeed, the greater part, by far, of our future publications, will be 
of a directly religious character. But surely no American Christian 
of liberal mind and expanded views will object to our occasionally 
sending forth some little volume of human science, otherwise unat- 
tainable, and of the utmost importance to the schools. I have a 
Geography on hand, partly prepared, and expect also, in a few 
months, to take up an improved modern Greek Grammar, by our 
excellent and accomplished friend, Professor Bambas. With these 
exceptions, I hope for a long time to devote myself almost wholly 
to wotks illustrative of the Holy Scriptures, and in support of their 
inspiration and authority ; and to the history of the Church. Very 
shortly we shall commence printing the Turkish Bible, with Greek 
characters, for the Greeks of Asia Minor, as a large portion of 


968 Report of the Board of Directors. — 1888. 


them are acquainted with no other language. The translation is by 
my Rev. Br. Leeves, and the edition is at the expense of the British 
and Foreign Bible Society. I hope that the American Bible Society 
will unite in the work, and have written them to that effect.’ 

“ Dr. Robertson informs the Committee that he officiates every 
other Sunday in a private house, the Rey. Mr. Leeves alternating 
with him in the performance of this duty. At present there is no 
Protestant place of worship on the Island, nor in fact in all Greece. 
But efforts are making at Syra for the erection of a chapel there, 
which Dr. Robertson appears to think will be successful. 

“Dr. R.’s services as a Minister of Christ are not confined to 
the Lord’s day. His preaching, he remarks, ‘is daily; by the way- 
side, and from house to house, not with the formality of text and 
division, but in the flow of conversation, and in friendly discussion.” 

‘“¢ Another mode in which Dr. R. endeavors to render himself 
useful, is by visiting the vessels of different nations which stop at 
the port, and supplying them with religious tracts. In this manner 
he has distributed many in the English, French, German, Italian, 
and Spanish languages, which were thankfully received. | 

“By a letter received from Dr. Robertson, early in the present 
year, we learned that it was Mrs. Robertson’s intention to com- 
mence, with the aid of her daughter, a Mission school, so soon as the 
necessary funds should be provided. Communications just received 
from the Rey. Mr.-Hill and his wife, inform us that this institution 
has been commenced under very favorable. auspices, and is doing 
exceedingly well. 


““ MISSION TO CHINA. 


“The Board of Directors having, at their last meeting, deter- 
mined upon the establishment of a Mission to China, the Executive 
Committee promptly applied themselves, and with all possible dili- 
gence, to the carrying of this resolution into effect. 

“On the 14th of July, 1834, the Rev. Henry Lockwood became 
connected with the Society as a Missionary to this station. 

““Soon after the appointment of Mr. Lockwood,* the Committee 
adopted the following resolutions with regard to the Mission : 

“That it expedient there should be two Missionaries, at least, 
employed in this service, 


* A graduate of the General Theological Seminary, New York. 


isa 


1895. — Report of the Board of Directors. 269 


“That the Missionaries, for some time at least, be altogether 
itinerants. ; 

“That the Missionaries, for the present, be unmarried men. 

“That the Missionaries be required to pursue medical studies for 
a period of not less than six months, in this city. 

“Early in the month of September, Mr. Lockwood arrived in 
this city, and commenced his medical studies under the direction of 
Drs. Morris and Wiltbank. In addition to the instruction received 
from these gentleman, Mr. L. enjoyed the privilege of daily attend- 
ing the lectures of the Medical Faculty of the University of Penn- 
sylvania, and the Faculty of the Medical Institute. 

“From the date of Mr. Lockwood’s appointment to the month 
of February, 1835, the efforts of the Committee to obtain another 
Missionary were ineffectual. At this period, however, the good 
providence of God opened a door for the accomplishment of this 
object. The Rev. Francis R. Hanson,* Rector of Christ Church, 
Prince George county, Md., feeling it to be his duty to engage in 
the Foreign Missionary enterprise, offered himself to the Committee 
for the Mission to China, and was accepted by them on the 23d of 
March. 

“ During the same month the Committee resolved upon the 
departure of the Missionaries to their destination early in the 
summer. Accordingly, on the arrival of Mr. Hanson in Philadel- 
phia, the Missionaries were directed by the Committee to visit the 
churches in the city of New York, with a view of exciting an interest 
in the Mission, and procuring funds in aid of the undertaking. At 
the date of their entering on this agency, the amount of the China 
Mission Fund was a little rising of $1,000. A few weeks after that 
period, sufficient had been contributed by a few liberal individuals 
in New York, to meet all the expenses of the Mission for at least 
one year. A passage, free of all expense, was also provided for the 
Missionaries by the house of Talbot, Olyphant and Co., of the same 
city, in their ship, the Morrison, bound to Canton. All things 
being thus prepared for the embarkation of the Missionaries, they 
sailed from the port of New York on the 2d day of June. 

“On the evening of the 31st of May, a farewell Missionary 
meeting was held in St. Stephen’s Church, Philadelphia, at which 
the Rt. Rev. Bishop White presided, and read to the Missionaries 


* A graduate of the Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Va. 


270 Report of the Board of Durectors. 1885. 


the letter of instructions which, at the request of the Executive 
Committee, he had prepared. Bishop H. U. Onderdonk was also 
present and conducted the devotional exercises. Addresses suitable 
to the occasion were delivered by the Rev. Dr. Tyng, chairman of 
the Foreign Committee, the Rev. Messrs. Hanson and Lockwood, and 
the Secretary of the Society. There was also a meeting of a similar 
character at St. Thomas’s Church, New York, on Monday evening, 
June Ist. The speakers at that time were Bishop Smith of Ken- 
tucky, Dr. Tyng of Philadelphia, the Rev. Messrs. Hanson and Lock- 
wood, and the Secretary of the Society. Dr. Milnor conducted the 
devotional. services, and Dr. Hawks read Bishop White’s letter 
of instructions. Both these meetings were numerously attended, 
and proved occasions of great interest. 


<C AFRICA, 


“Tt is with exceeding regret that the Board report the result of 
their exertions with regard to the establishment of a Mission to 
Liberia. Soon after the last meeting of the Directors, the Secre- 
tary of the Society, by request of the Executive Committee, 
addressed a letter to the students of the General Theological 
Seminary, and of the seminaries of Ohio and Virginia, upon the 
subject of the Mission to Africa, contemplated by the Society, 
commending it to their special consideration, and inquiring 
whether any of their number were disposed to engage in this 
enterprise. 

“The resolutions adopted by the Board, in May, 1834, with 
respect to operations in Africa, were also communicated to the clergy 
generally ; and earnest calls have again and again been presented 
in the Missionary Record, and other periodicals, for laborers in this 
interesting field. But as yet, these efforts to benefit Africa have 
been unavailing, and it still remains for the Society to find the 
Agents who are willing to carry out its designs with respect to that 
long-neglected section of our earth. ) 

“In the last Report it was stated that the Episcopalians at Mon- 
rovia had formed themselves into a religious society, under the title 
of St. James’s Church, and that an appeal, signed by the wardens 
and vestry, had been transmitted to this country, for aid in the 
erection of a house of worship. The writer of this appeal is Mr. 
James Thompson, Secretary to the Colonial Agent at Cape Palmas. 
This individual is a native of Demarara, about 27 years of age, 


td be 


- 1885. Report of the Board of Directors. | 271 


intelligent, pious, well educated, ardently attached to the distinctive 
principles and features of the Episcopal Church, and for a consider- 
able period has been officiating among the colonists.as Lay Reader. 
Soon after the meeting of the Board in 1834, the Secretary of the 
Society was requested to open a correspondence with Mr. Thomp- 
son, and ascertain from him whether he would be willing to engage 
in the service of the Society as an ordained Missionary, provided it 
was practicable to effect his ordination in accordance with the canons 
of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. To this 
inquiry Mr. T. replied, that he did not consider his qualifications 
of such a character as would justify him in assuming the ministerial 
office, and would prefer codperating with the Society in Africa, in 
the capacity of a teacher.* In the same communication Mr. Thomp- 
son suggested the following as the only efficient mode of civilizing 
and christianizing the children of heathen parents in Africa: 

“*<TLet there be a large native house built as a boarding-school 
for the native children, some distance from any native town, and a 
decent dwelling-house for the teacher or teachers. As the children 
are totally destitute of clothing, it would be necessary to furnish each 
of them with some sort of plain, loose garment. They will also 
expect to be found in rice and palm oil, their usual diet (an abun- 
dance of which may be bought here very cheap, with trade goods, 
such as tobacco, cloth, crockery, etc.). The children will then flock in 
multitudes, and stay at school both night and day, by which means 
they will soon forget their native habits and imbibe ours.’ 

“Shortly after the receipt of Mr. Thompson’s letter, the Executive 
Committee determined to establish, with as little delay as possible, 
a Mission School in Liberia, on the plan recommended by him, 
and appointed both himself and wifet teachers of the same. They 
also appropriated a sum for the erection of Mission buildings, and 
requested Mr. Thompson to visit and examine Factory Island, on 
the St. John’s River, which had been represented to them as a 


* «The Board have since been informed (though they have received no 
communication from Mr. Thompson on the subject), that he has been admitted 
as a candidate for orders in the diocese of Connecticut.” 

+ “Mrs. T. was educated and brought up at Hartford, Connecticut. She is 
perfectly acquainted with the infant-school system of education, and has acted 
as teacher in one of these Institutions in Philadelphia, with credit to herself 
and satisfaction to her employers. She also is a member of the Episcopal 
Church.” 


272 Report of the Board of Directors. 1835. 


desirable location for the Mission; and if he found it suitable for 
the purposes of the Society, to make every necessary arrangement 
for the establishment of the school. 


“The Board have now presented a general statement of the 
Society’s concerns. With gratitude they would acknowledge the 
opportunities of usefulness which God, in his providence, has been 
pleased to open before the Institution, and the measure of success 
which he has vouchsafed to its operations. Ona comparison of the 
present state of the Society with its condition at any former period, 
the Committee believe that its friends will see abundant reason to 
‘thank God and take courage.’ In the augmentation of the funds 
of the Institution, the accession to its number of Auxilliary Asso- 
ciations, the increase of its members, and the enlargement of its 
sphere of labors, there is much to show that God has indeed been 
With it,and given it his blessing. But especially do the indica- 
tions of the Divine presence and favor appear in the disposition to 
engage in the Missionary enterprise, which has been manifested 
since the last anniversary. A considerable portion of the students 
in our General Theological Seminary have recently communicated to 
the Executive Committee their desire of devoting themselves to the 
service of the Society in its Foreign department. Four, at least, 
also, in the Theological Seminary of the Church in Virginia are 
at present applicants for appointments as Missionaries to the heathen. 

“In these things the members of our Church must behold much 
that is calculated to quicken their zeal, animate their hopes, and 
excite them to renewed diligence in the great design of extending 
the kingdom of God’s dear Son. But their encouragement and 
determination to go forward in this glorious undertaking are not to 
be derived from such considerations only. Zhe cause ts the Lords. 
He who suffered on the Cross that He might become the Saviour of 
all who believe on His name, solemnly commanded His disciples to 
proclaim the salvation of the Gospel to every human being, and for 
their support in the discharge of this duty, has declared, ‘Lo, Iam 
with you alway.’ 

“Here then is a motive for perseverance which casts all others 
comparatively into the shade, and which is more than sufficient 
to engage the heart, the hands, the substance, the influence and 
example of every real Christian in the Work of Missions.” 


1885. Contributions of Associations. 273 


“CONTRIBUTIONS OF ASSOCIATIONS. 


NEW HAMPSHIRE. 


Female Foreign Missionary Society, St. Andrew’s Church, Hopkinton................. $16 00 

Female Missionary Society, St. John’s Church, Portsmouth...............0....2-0000 aan 185 00 

Episcopal Missionary Society, Portsmouth........................05. Biepee ad emits seistet eal 00s 

Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society of Portsmouth.....................0: 2 ce eeees 20 00 
MAINE. 

Pana emnle Forcion Hducation Society........ 0.2... sc cece ccncoccgceetccepiecnncs 35 00 
MeniorAtistlianry MIpsiONaAry, SOCIeLY, LOrtland... 2.66.53 .cccluccccccnscccaecetessectie 22 50 
MASSACHUSETTS, 

ree nCee toro MING WDUPY DOU weer tec i elec eo scc ccc ca galdvec secs sechiedaecss rece teat LUe25 
Auxiliary Missionary Association, Christ Church, Cambridge......................2... 40 00 
Auxiliary Missionary Association, St. James’s Church, Greenfield. ................. Ste cee) 
Missionary Association, St. Mary’s Church, Newton (Lower Falls)...................-- 25 00 
Missionary Association, St. Michael’s Church, Marblehead...........0.0...000. 52.000. 30 00 
AMURiiary sOceuy, ot-.lauls Church, Newburyport... 0.2... 0. 2.5. ccc ek cece ewes tae 15 00 
Female Beneficial and Missionary Society, St. Paul’s Church, Wewburyport. A RBECE 12 00 
pereresnuciery ot. Poter's Church, Salem... 5... 2. cece scene cncsecectces 5Y 17 
VERMONT. _ 
Female Missionary and Education Society of St. Albans................. 00.00. e cece ee 12 25 
Minsiousryaoocrety su raul s Church, WindSor.:.f. sic ccc i pe cele ds cede cewe dees cceenes 45 00 
Uuvente missionary society, Middlebuty.s... ve. 2.00.52. s0. cc cee been cle eevee eet ae 5 00 
Cirle Oreiausity mDeLlOWs MAlIG. iii cud 6 Seeks A. et oe Cla lend c cece cee aha 50 00 
RHODE ISLAND. 
Ladies’ Sewing Circle of Grace Church, Providence.....2...0..0 0c cc. cece cece eee es 80 00 
CONNECTICUT. 
Female Missionary Society, Grace Church, Saybrook...... ....... 0.0.0.2 0 cece wees ee eees 35 00 
Female Missionary Association of Monroe Parish, Fairfield County.................... 15 00 
Nileevesociaion ot. Matthews Parish, Plymouth. .6. 2. cec. cede ces cece cece censeess 115 00 
EMG r Orie i IGCMiTe ld COULEY: © 24 lacs ans sncie sled p.cplo) Cab waco slosaicac! ooiieadeccecuace 13 00 
Missionary Association, Calvary Church, Hanover, Courtland County.................. 17 00 
Missionary Association, St. George’s Church, Milford................. 00... cece eee e es 30 00 
Female Missionary Association, Christ Church, Stratford.................. aft aeeoNetenete 105 50 
Ladies’ Benevolent Society, Trinity Church, Newtown................ 0.0 .cececee cea 8 00 
Maemimerrom Colicge Missionary Society. ... 2... c.. sete cae bob agenetccccbececcusleeaes 26 00 
Missionary Asso’n, Episcopai Clergy of New London, Windham, and Tolland Counties... 20 00 
Ladies’ Benevolent Society, St. Paul’s Church, Brookfield...................0..0 20000 12 00 
Missionary Association, St. Michael’s Church, Litchfield.............. 0.0.22. eee cence 78 86 
MigsrOnarye A BEOCIAL ION. Of DRBdleyeville..i4sc cio <ciefllenie oid sala alele yee ae sield's Heledle Ge sees 8 00 
MiacsiOnAlyenesOciation. ob. eters Church, Plymouth: i222 ve poi et os.0 Se eweee sae 10 00 
Episcopal Female Missionary Association, Christ Church, Middletown.,............... 30 00 
Maver ceMipslonary society. Christi Church. . aie.) iekices nce silence Hs sro d ec swlele voile aials 5 00 
puncemortetyest. Pauls Church, Norwalk: .. 0.4 ).vsc pec eee t ele cclecnsacetecreetes 31 00 
Missionary Society, St. John’s Church, New Milford. Banos SRAM ATMS Ure ool Rcal carte eased Okan es 65 00 
MemnlorxcsOcianlOn Ole HUMtIMOLON ..\... . sace's (2d boa Spal soda 8 dees emi 6 ods ebtle a eee wane 18 25 
Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, Christ Church, Hartford.................... 700 00 
Piilercirie Sewing Society, Waterbury... 5. vied. cep cence Wo cdawenccccecceceeccces 6 00 
Sequim circle of Patonville Seminary, Bridgeport).......s.. skate cece cle ces eeuee 33 00 
AnenoievosHionary society, Waterbury ys .: 0 Li. vec he eis tae le gd Pik dees coves 20 00 
Missionary society, Christ Church; Norwich: .....025 00) wssede acs vlesed See. lode nite f 5 16 00 
Missionary society,.ot, reter’s'Church, Cheshire: . 2.000% 22k hice ce tienes awane ees 23 20 
Female Missionary Association, St. James’s Church, New London...................5, 45 00 


18 


O74 Contributions of Associations. 1835. 
Male and Female Missionary Societies, St. Andrew’s Church, Meriden................. 17 18 
Ladies’ Missionary Association, St. Matthew’s Church, Plymouth....... .............. 8 16 
Missionary Agsociation, St. Peter’s Parish) Monroe... -.. 02/2. s20 se irre dso tahoe 19 00 
NEW YORK. 
Association of Christ Church, New York City, for the Promotion of Christianity...... 96 59 
Protestant Episcopal Association of Trinity Church, Utica.....................-..--... 69 32 
Female Missionary Society, Grace Church, Jamaica, Long Island.... .............. coat 2 e0OL00 
Missionary Association, Ascension Church, New York City...............-..........:. 720 00 
Missionary Association, St. Luke’s Church, Rochester: <2 .-. s.r eet ee 400 00 
Heber Auxiliary Missionary Association of the Institute, Flushing.................... 200 00 
Protestant Episcopal Association, St. George’s Church, Schenectady........... ....... 59 27 
Missionary. Association, St. Paul's Church; Buttalo 2.) 6) 2-9 ee Pata A Se A, 87 50 
Female Missionary Association, Trinity. Church, Windham... .................-....-. 1 00 
Missionary Association, General Theological Seminary..................... .......... 112 00 
Missionary Association, St. George’s Church, New York City.......... od cadstaa sie patents 1,200 00 
Christian Benevolent Society, St. Stephen’s Church, New York........ oe Sage NG 98 50 
Association, Mission Church (Boly Hvangelist) 5:2. --.e- 22 eee eee ieee 2 13 
Troy ees sides 0 6 owielne ds 5 Gis cc.oinle Soe-Subyp one niece ect fe ante /olebe coca vee ele eae a 400 00 
Female Missionary Association, St. Matthew’ 8 Church, Bedford) gee- eee 80 00 
Female Association, St. John’s Church,/Johnstown..........-......... --- Apa Sa Menace 18 00 
Society for the Promotion of Christianity, St. Peter’s Church, Albany................. 100 00 
Female Education and Missionary Association, St. George’s Church, Flushing......... 134 00 
Female Society of Industry of St. Faul’s Church, Albany.... .......... J tehe Bees ee 100 00: 
Missionary Association, St. John’s Church, Troy............... ig inlgp te « Seeds Sea caren 152 00 
Missionary Society, Trinity Church, Geneva..............- Ai Sd eS 50 00 
Missionary Society, St. James’s Church, Newtown, L. I....................+-- isc, 31 00 
New York Young Men’s Auxiliary Education and Missionary Society....... Gu ORSSLEE 125 00 


NEW JERSEY. 


Female Association, Christ Church, New Brunswick...:...........-.e2e-teeceeeees eee 50 00 
Auxiliary Missionary Association, St. Peters Church, Perth Amboy................... 3 56 
Female Missionary Society, St. Andrew’s Church, Mount Holly........ .............. 25 50 
Missionary Association; St. John’s Church, Salem......-..... 00s 0. aes eee 5 00 
PENNSYLYANIA. 
Missionary Society of St. Stephen’s Church, Philadelphia...... bala tasls pumale oretels payacet bec tice 822 50 
Female Missionary Association, Christ Church, Philadelphia.........................-. 20 00 
Female Auxiliary Society, St. James’s Church, Lancaster..............s.22-+0++-eeeeee 117 00 
Missionary Society, Bangor Church, Lancaster County..............cceceee cece cece anes 25 00 
Juvenile Female Missionary Society, Trinity Church, Philadelphia............ ....... 30 37 
Association, St. Luke’s Church,.Germantown. .::.2::-. 2) 22. .se ee sean 20 00 
Female Sunday School Association, St. Paul’s Church, Philadelphia................... 200 00 
Female Sunday School Association, St. John’s Church, Philadeiphia................ 78S SAPO 
Juvenile Missionary Society, St. James’s Church, Philadelphia HRA Ss cciol cer cts eh 8 00 
Female Missionary Society, Teachers’ Sunday School, St. James’s Church, Phila Soe ie 12 00 
Missionary Society, Grace Church Sunday School. ..............3.--eeceeeccescececcese 15 50 
Missionary Association, St. James’s Church, Philadelphia.....:....... ASAE AIRES ost. 172 00 
Parish Association, ‘Trinity Church, ‘Philadelphia... 020 5.... «..su eee ane 30 00 
Female Society, St. Andrew’s Church, Philadelphia. ... 0s... ..2. 0.0.0. seeeeemaee eee 100 00 
Ladies’ Sewing Society, Christ. Church, Meadville..............seene-cescccecssceceees 20 00 
Missionary Association, St. John’s Church, Carlisle.... ..../:. 1v20e. sce geeeeeeeeaen 14 75 
Boys’ Missionary Society, Sunday School, St. Paul’s Church, Philadelphia..... ....... 24 00 
Missionary Association, Sunday School, St. Andrew’s Church.................---- Pes PIs, 
Female Missionary Society, St. John’s Church, Philadelphia.......................- «- 100 00 
Juvenile Missionary Society, Swedish Church, Philadelphia............ Reith 5 Ses iA 7 00 
Protestant Episcopal Association, Christ Church, Philadelphia.................. ...... 190 00 
Missionary Society, St. Paul’s Church,. Philadelphia.......5.5......s0scccceecss veneer 150 00 
Female Association, Church of the Epiphany, Philadelphia .....................eeeene 62 50 


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4 
1885. Contributions of Associations. 275 
Male Association, Church of the Epiphany, Philadelphia....................--..+--005- 112 50 
Missionary Association, Christ Church, Jersey Town...............00.22ceceeeceteeeeee 2 9% 
Missionary Association, St. Paul’s Church, Bloomsburg...........0...-.02-.eeeeee eee 13 05 
Mite Society, Sunday School, St. Martin’s Church, Marcus Hook...............2..--+-- 6 00 
Missionary Society, Christ Church, Allephanytown............ 0... cece edecceccecceeeces % 28 
Ladies’ Missionary Association, St. James’s Church, Muncy.....................06 aie ame LO, 00) 
Domestic Missionary Society, St. John’s Church, Carlisle............ 0.20.0... eee eens 19 00 
Auxiliary Missionary Society, Christ Church, Reading. .»......... 0... cee eee eee eee 50 26 
Missionary Society, All Saints’ Church, Bower Dublin.................... cece ecee cece 18 00 
MARYLAND. 
Female Episcopal Missionary Society of Chestertown................ 0.2 c cece eee ee ees 25 00 
Missionary Association, Christ Church, Baltimore.... ........... 0... ..c cece ee eee eee 50 00 
NvounmHadies Missionary ooclety, Chestertown... sc... cqcce cece ctsccdoceccdcicccce 25 00 
Juvenile Missionary Association, Chestertown. ... 0... 00.0.0... ccc cece cee cence ee eees 80 00 
Auxiliary Missionary Association, St. Peter’s Church, Baltimore Sueaisirs sean & Sue's clsisie 803 00 
Juvenile Missionary Association, St. Peter’s Church, Baliaore Leo OnE CP hp OCCREAOn Or 20 00 
Juvenile Missionary Association, Christ Church, Baltimore...........:..........00008 50 00 
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 
Missionary Association of Christ Church, Georgetown...............2ccceeceeceeeunees 100 25 
Missionary Association, St. Paul’s Church, Alexandria..........3... cceccecccesccececes 106 50 
Weekly Contribution Fund of Christ Church, Georgetown..............2.. cece cee eens 35 00 
VIRGINIA. 
Auxiliary Society of esesturpte Zeke) EOS ec HOC SEIS as MEIC AERC ETE WR No Moumefers icine: sietare 110 00 
Juvenile Association of the Episcopal Church in Fredericksburg...............00..-5. 10 00 
Missionary Association, Christ Church, Richmond..............2....00.020 cece eee eee 60 00 
Female Auxiliary Society of the Chapelin Frederick County............ ..........2.. 50 00 
Female Episcopal Foreign Missionary Society, Monumental Church, Richmond........ 163 00 
Missionary Society, St. George’s Church, Fredericksburg........5...... 0.0 cee cece ees 58 25 
Auxiliary Missionary Society, St. Martin’s Parish, Hanover County..................-. 35 00 
Association, St..Ann’s Parish, Essex County...........0..-2.000 20000: Gicia onan niatals 45 00 
Female Missionary Society, St. Ann’s Parish, Essex County...................2..000. 24 25 
AesoGlinione south Harmham Parish, Wessex County... ..-.. 2.22. s9- eee cee ene censn ees 35 50 
Mesoeimioneon wary s barisnh, Caroline County .. .. 0:4. c.0. 0). .0c5- eee cece e cee wenees 27 60 
Missionary Society of Amelia and Chesterfield Counties... ........-........... 0.00... 20 00 
Episcopal Female Society, Christ Church, Lancaster County....... ...........0 02.00. 50 00 
Missionary Association, St. Andrew’s Parish, Brunswick County.... ................. 52 50 
Missionary Association, Bath Parish, Dinwiddie County.................2....0 0. ee eee 32 22 
Moemale missionary society, Charlestown. :...2-.. 2.005 .0.claee cee ecne ence cesvees Ee 10 00 
NORTH CAROLINA. 
Ladies’ Working Society, St. James’s Church, Wilmington................ cee eeee eens 60 00 
SOUTH CAROLINA. 
Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society, Charleston................. coe cece eee eee ee 200 00 
empress iesionary society Of Béaufort.2. 5 6. cle nets ce cee desc cccueceens 279 00 
Female Sunday School Missionary Society, St. Helena Church, Beaufort............... 15 00 
Missionary Association, St. Michael’s Church, Charleston...................-.0002000- 100 00 
Sewing Society, Church of the Holy Trinity, Grahamville..................2..2..20005- 100 00 
Missionary Association, St. Philip’s Church, Charleston................ 0.0... 000002000 163 57 
Missionary Association, St. Paul’s Church, Radcliffeborough........................6. 85 68 
Female Missionary Society, All Saints’ Parish, Waccamaw....................2252000- "7% 00 
Wiorknun pocety. ot; Peter's Church, Charleston: i. ....... 8 ce dace cans scseGlnecetess 30 00 
Monthly Missionary Society, Charleston........... SrA SP eee ae Oo Ge ahah wa nen wae art 187 21 


GEORGIA. 
Female Missionary Society, Christ Church, Savannah....... 2.0... ...cecce cece cece eens 82 00 


276 Donations and Treasurers Statement. 1835. 


FLORIDA. , 
Female Missionary Association of Middle Florida.... .............. io ola wk bile Siete tae 200 00 
OHIO. 

Missionary Association of St. Paul’s Church, Medina.....:..........-ccc-yecceesucwees 11 00 
Female Missionary Society, Columbus.) 2% (5 2e..<.< 0-0. oe so oe osc) iee ene ee 89 00 
Female Missionary Society, St. James’s Church, Boardman.....................-....-- 5 00 
Female Missionary Society, St. Philip’s Church, Circleville.............--..-+...+-.... 22 89 
Auxiliary Missionary Society, Kenyon Colleges... . 22. . 2.4... 02.4 ce eae eee 160 00 
Juvenile Sewing Circle, Columbus. si. 05> sore. = sags ce: nee vole eee 54 00 
Juvenile Missionary Society, St. Philip's Church, Circleville...............12....--.25- 4 37 
Ladies’ Sewing Society, St. Peter’s Church, Ashtabula...............-....s.41..1...00- 30 00 
Society of St. Luke’s Church, Granville... iui 0.29. Seba -k « nee ome 5 00 
MISSOURI. 
Protestant Episcopal Association, Christ Church, St. Louis........... ..........-...-- 244 15 
MICHIGAN. 
Ladies’ Industrious Society, St: Paul’s Church, Detroit. . 22... 9.0.6 eee eee eee 200 00 


** DONATIONS. 


“From the American Tract Society there has been received the sum of 
$1,000 for tract operations in Greece. 

“From the American Bible Society, three hundred English Bibles for dis- 
tribution by our Missionaries to China, and $1,000 for the purchase of the 
Scriptures in the Chinese language, to be distributed by the same hands. 

“From the Female Bible Society of Philadelphia, $100 for the purchase of 
Bibles to be distributed in Greece, and $100 for the purchase of Bibles to be 
distributed in China. 

“From Messrs. 8S. Warren and W. Bradley, of Troy, five hundred Prayer 
Books to be distributed among the recently-organized and destitute congrega- 
tions in the West. 

“From the Ladies’ Benevolent Society of St. Paul’s Church, Brookfield, 
Conn., a box of clothing for the Green Bay Mission, valued at $12. 

“From the Female Charitable Association of Christ Church, Hampton, 
N. Y., and St. John’s Church, Poultney, Vt.,a box of articles for the Green 
Bay Mission, valued at $27.79. 

“From the Association of Calvary Church, Homer, for the Promotion of 
Christianity, a box of articles for the Green Bay Mission, valued at $58.70.” 


TREASURER’S STATEMENT—IN PART. 
Abstract of Receipts and Payments from May 18, 1834, to August 14, 1835. 


For-General Mission Account: «... {ihe ts eee $9,847 48 
Domestic.Mission Account... ia.n «2k See 5,442 23 
Foreign Mission Account............. Pee ti tee es 1,157 57 
Gréek Mission Account... . sa... «tinue Sean 7,898 14 
Green Bay, Mission Actount,.c.4. spare eee 2,070 04 
China Mission Account... fac iodo eee ee 9,898 63 
Africa Mission Account. 35.2. sean eee een 676 85 


—— $36,990 94 
Balance on hand; May 13,1884: +... Sa. swe « sn pees ee 7,210 O01 


1835, Triennial Meeting of the Society. OTT 


Brought forward. sci ah eee otic et t~ $44,200: 96 

Paid on account of General Missions................. $3,841 07 
xe : Domestic Missions... ............ 6,780 82 

< ¢ CTeGkeNieriOlre. 6 0052 55 ss ants crete 10,781 32 

ne 6 Green Bay Mission..............- 5,474 70 

<< s China; Mission. ..:...35............ 4413 48 

yaa SE 4 ASPICO MASSON. 09'S Ad eA es 15 00 
feeseneo, cash in the T'reasury:... 0... 2.00.2 .ccc cence 12,895 11 


$44,200 95 $44,200 95 


Aug. 14, 1885—To cash balance in Treasury....................4. $12,895 11 
Balance Sheet. Dr. CR. 

Rrermrem er teeOU ACCOUNL. 0.0 ges. osc ek ee ee ee es $18,760 35 
pe eTe SIIB MIOT ACCOUNT. 6. 65 5565 coe oie oe ele eet sees 1,204 82 
mererarerON ACCOUNT. fo... ee ee ee 3,000 97 
Peer estOm ACCOUDL.. .. 2. cc ce ec cece ete ede $586 53 

Green Bay Mission Account...................-.-.65-- 16,316 99 

MrIrPIIESIOM ACCOUNT, 24 oo sa.c se ee cece eee ce teas 5,485 20 
imicme Mission Account...!............eese+cec ee cees 1,012 29 
NNT iso a alin giv dale Sue ciate's bic ieie to) clo islelota ets - 12,895 11 


$29,798 63 $29,798 63 


TRIENNIAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY. 


The Triennial Meeting of the Domestic and Foreign Mis- 
sionary Society was held in St. Andrew’s Church, Philadelphia, 
Saturday, August 22, 1835, at nine o’clock a.m. 

The Right Rev. Bishop Meade in the chair. 


On motion of the Secretary, it was 


“ Resolved, That the reading of the Minutes of the last meeting 
of the Society be dispensed with.” 


The Secretary having stated his reasons for believing that it 
was not in his power to determine who were members of the 
Society, it was, on motion of the Rey. Dr. Milnor, 


“Resolved, That the printed list of the names of the members 
of this Society, published by the Board of Directors last year, be 
‘received as evidence of the membership of the persons therein 
named; and that a Committee of two be appointed to receive and 
decide upon the claims of any persons desiring to be recognized as 
members, whose names are not in that list; and that the said Com- 
mittee are authorized to receive the declarations of such persons 


278 Proceedings of the Socrety. 1885, 


that they have paid three dollars to the objects of the institution 
within the past year, as evidence of their membership respectively.” 


The Rev. Dr. Milnor and the Rev. Mr. James were appointed 
the Committee. ? 
On motion of Bishop Doane, it was 


“ Resolved, To correct the printed Report of the Committee on 
the Reorganization of the Society, in the third paragraph on page 
three, so as that it shall read thus: ‘ Each parish being regarded as 
a Missionary Association, and the Rector, or if there be no Rector, 
the Minister, as the Agent of the Board, for Jesus’ sake.’ ” 


On motion of Dr. Milnor, it was 


“Resolved, That the names of the members of the Society, as 
printed in the Report of the Board of Directors for 1834, be read.” 


This Resolution having been complied with, it was, on motion 
of the Secretary, 


“Resolved, That the general’ view of the proceedings of the 
Society for the last three years, as prepared by the Secretary, be 
referred, in accordance with the Tenth Article of the Constitution, 
to a Committee, to prepare for the consideration of the Society a 
Report to be presented to the Convention during its session, as the 
Report of the Society.” 


Bishop Doane and the Rev. Drs. Henshaw and Wheaton 
were appointed the Committee. 

The Rev. Mr. James, on behalf of the Committee on Mem- 
bership, reported several individuals as entitled to the privilege 
of membership, whose names were accordingly entered on the 
list of members. 

The reading of the Report of the Committee on the Reor- 
ganization of the Society was called for. 

On motion of Dr, Milnor, it was 


““ Resolved, That the Society do now corsider the Report of 
that Committee.” 


On motion of Dr. Tyng, it was 


1885. Proceedings of the Socvety. 279 


“Resolved, That the preamble of the Report be first considered.” 


After a long-continued discussion of the principle involved in 
this document, it was, on motion of Dr. Milnor, 


“Resolved, That the Report lie on the table for the present.” 


On motion of the same, it was then 


“ Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to frame a Constitu- 
tion, to be submitted at some future time to the Society.” 


On motion of Dr. Tyng, it was 


“Resolved, That the duty of preparing a Constitution be de- 
volved on the Committee on the Reorganization of the Society.” 


On motion of Dr. Milnor, it was 


“Resolved, That the Rev. Drs. Tyns and Potter be added to 
the Committee.” 


Dr. Potter having asked to be excused serving on the Com- 
mittee, it was, on motion, 


“Resolved, That the Rev. J. 8. Stone be appointed in his place.” 


It having been stated that the Rev. Dr. Kemper, one of the 
members of the Committee, had been obliged to leave the city, 
it was, on motion, 


“Resolved, That the Rev. Mr. James be appointed as his sub- 
stitute.” 


On motion of Dr. Milnor, it was 


“Resolved, That when the Society adjourn, it adjourn until 
Tuesday, the 25th inst., at eight o’clock a.m.” 


On motion of Bishop H. U. Onderdonk, it was 


“Resolved, To refer the whole Report of the Committee on the 
Reorganization of the Society back to the Committee.” 


On motion, it was 


“Resolved, To adjourn.” 


280 Proceedings of the Socvety. 1885, 


‘Turspay, August 25—8 o’clock a.m. 


The Society met, the Right Rev. Bishop Meade in the chair. 

The Minutes of the preceding meeting were read. 

Bishop Doane, on behalf of the Committee on the Reorgan- 
ization of the Society, presented the following Report: 


“The Committee appointed by the Board of Directors of the 
Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Epis- 
copal Church in the United States of America, to consider and 
report ‘whether any and what measures should be adopted for the 
more efficient organization of the Society, and the future conduct 
of its concerns, and afterward reappointed and enlarged by the 
Society, having had referred back to them, by the Society, the 
Report which they had made, with instructions to report the form 
of a Constitution, respectfully present the following as the result of 
their unanimous conclusions on the important subject referred to 
them by the Society. 


“GrorGE W. Doane, CuHarues P. McItvarne, 
JAMES MILNoR, J. P. K. Hensoaw, 
FREDERICK Brastey, StrepHEN H. Tyne, 
JOHN §. STONE, Joun W. JAMEs, 
ALEXANDER C, MAagrupEr, Committee.” 

“ CONSTITUTION 


“Of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church in the United States of America, 


“ARTICLE I. This institution shall be denominated ‘The Domestic and 
Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United 
States of America.’ 

“Art. II. The Society shall be considered as comprehending all persons who 
have become in baptism members of this Church. 

“Art. II. At every Triennial Meeting of the General Convention, which is 
the constituted representative body of the whole Protestant Episcopal Church 
in these United States, there shall be appointed, by a concurrent vote, on nom- 
ination by a joint Committee of the two Houses, a Board of thirty members, 
who, together with the Bishops of this Church, and such persons as became 
Patrons of this Society before the year 1829, shall be called the ‘ Board of 
Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America,’ 
The said Committee of Nomination shall consist of three Bishops, to be 
elected by ballot in the House of Bishops, and three Presbyters and three 
Laymen, to be elected by Ballot in the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies. 


1888. : Proceedings of the Society. 281 


“ArT. IV. To the Board of Missions shall be entrusted the supervision of 
the general Missionary operations of the Church, with power to establish Mis- 
sionary Stations, appoint Missionaries, make appropriations of money, regulate 
the conducting of Missions, fill any vacancies in their number which may occur, 
and also to enact all By-laws which they may deem necessary for their own 
government and the government of their Committees. 

“ArT. V. The Presiding Bishop of the Church shall be the President of the 
Board, and, in his absence, the senior Bishop present shall preside; in the 
absence of all the Bishops, the Board shall elect a President pro tempore. 

“ArT. VI. The Board of Missions shall meet annually at such time and 
place as may have been appointed at the previous Annual Meeting, and also on 
the second day of the meeting of the General Convention, at the place of its 
meeting. They shall publish an Annual Report of their proceedings for the 
information of the Society, and present a Triennial Report to each stated Gen- 
eral Convention. 

“ At all meetings of the Board, ten members shall form a quorum. 

“Special Meetings of the Board may be called as shall be provided in their 
own By-laws. 

“Art. VII. The Board, as soon as may be after it has Boe constituted, shall 
proceed to appoint seven persons in the city of New York, four of whom shall 
be Clergymen, as a Committee for Domestic Missions, and seven persons in the 
city of Philadelphia, four of whom shall be Clergymen, as a Committee for 
Foreign Missions; all of whom shall be, ew officio, members of the Board of 
Missions. 

“ Any Bishop or Bishops present at the place of meeting shall have a right, 
ex officio, to attend the meetings of the Committees. 

“ Vacancies occurring in either of the Committees, during the recess of the 
Board, may be filled by the Committees respectively, subject to the approval 
of the Board at its next meeting. 

“ArT. VIII. To the Committees of the Board thus constituted shall be 
referred, in their respective fields, during the recess of the Board, the whole 
administration of the General Missionary Department of the Church, subject 
to the regulations of the Board, Each Committee shall make a report of their 
proceedings to the Board of Missions at every meeting of the Board. 

“ArT. IX. Hach Committee shall appoint a Secretary and General Agent, 
with a suitable salary, who shall be the Executive Officer of the Committee, 
to collect information, to conduct its correspondence, to devise and recommend 
plans of operation, and, in general, to execute all the purposes of the Board, 
in his proper sphere, submitting all his measures, before their adoption, to the 
Committee by whom he is appointed, for their approval. 

« Hach Committee shall also appoint a Treasurer. 

“The Secretaries and Treasurers shall be, ex officio, members of their 
respective Committees and of the Board. 

“Local and subordinate Agents and Officers may, when necessary, be 
appointed by each Committee. 

“ArT. X. For the guidance of the Committees, it is declared that the Mis- 
sionary field is always to be regarded as one—THE WORLD ; the terms Domestic 


282 Proceedings of the Society. 1835, 


and Foreign being understood as terms of locality, adopted for convenience. 
Domestic Missions are those which are established within,and Yoreign Missions 
are those which are established without, the territory of the United States. 

“Art. XI. No Clergyman shall be appointed a Missionary by the Board, or 
by either of the Committees, without the recommendation of the Bishop to 
whose Diocese he belongs; nor shall any Missionary be sent to officiate in any 
Diocese without the consent of the ecclesiastical authority of the same. 

“ART. XII. It is recommended to every member of this Society to pray to 
ALMIGHTY GoD for his blessing upon its designs, under the full conviction that, 
unless He direct us in all our doings with His most gracious favor, and further 
us with His continual help, we cannot reasonably hope to procure suitable 
persons to act as Missionaries, or expect that their endeavors will be successful.” 


Bishop Doane moved the adoption of the Constitution 
appended to the Report. 
On motion of Dr. Milnor, it was 


“ Resolved, That said motion lie on the table, and that the Con- 
stitution be considered by Articles.” 


The First Article was then read and discussed. 
The hour of ten, which was the hour of the meeting of the 
General Convention, having arrived, it was, on motion of Dr. 


Tyng, 


“Resolved, To adjourn until Wednesday, the 26th inst., at eight 
o’clock A.M. 


Wepnespay, August 26—8 o'clock a.m. 


The Society met. Bishop Doane in the chair. 
Bishop Meade opened the meeting with prayer. 
The Minutes of the last meeting were read. 

On motion of Mr. Nicklin, it was 


“Resolved, That the thanks of the Society be presented to the 
Right Rey. Bishop McIlvaine for the sermon preached before the 
Society, on Monday evening last, and that he be requested to 
furnish a copy thereof, to be published at the expense and for the 
benefit of the Society, under the direction of the present Secretary.” 


The Society resumed the consideration of the First Article 
of the Constitution reported by the Committee on the Reorgan- 
ization of the Society, which was finally adopted. 


1885. Proceedings of the Society. 283 


Dr. Tyng moved the adoption of the Second Article. 
On motion of the Rev. Mr. Hanckel, it was 


“Resolved, 'To amend the Article by omitting the words ‘have 
become in Baptism,’ and inserting in lieu thereof the word ‘are.’ 


On motion, the Article as amended was adopted. 
It was moved that the Third Article be adopted, when the 
Secretary offered the following amendment: 


“To insert after the word ‘ before,’ in the eighth line, the words 
‘the meeting of the General Convention in 1829.’” 


The Article as amended was adopted. 

On motion, the Fourth Article was adopted. 

On motion, the Sixth Article was adopted. 

Dr. Tyng moved the adoption of the Seventh Article. 
On motion of Dr. Milnor, it was | 


“Resolved, To amend this Article by inserting after the words 
‘to attend,’ in the second paragraph, the words ‘as members of the 
same.’ ” 


On motion of J. B. Wallace, Esq., it was 


“ Resolved, That the words ‘or county’ be inserted after the 
word ‘city,’ in the first paragraph.” 


Mr. Nicklin moved the following as a substitute for the 
whole Article: 


“'The Board, as soon as may be after it has been constituted, 
shall proceed to appoint eight persons in the city of New York, 
four of whom shall be Clergymen, and four of whom shall be Lay- 
men, who, together with the Diocesan, shall be a Committee for 
Domestic Missions; and eight persons in the city or county of 
Philadelphia, four of whom shall be Clergymen, and four of whom 
shall be Laymen, who, together with the Diocesan, shall be a Com- 
mittee for Foreign Missions, all of whom shall be, ex officio, mem- 
bers of the Board of Missions.” 


On motion of Mr. Nicklin, it was 


“Resolved, That the Society adjourn until the rising of the 
General Convention, this morning.” 


284. Proceedings of the Socvety. 1885. 


Wepnespay, August 26—1 o'clock P.M. 
The Society met pursuant to adjournment. The Right Rev. 
~ Bishop White in the chair. 
The Minutes of the preceding meeting were read. 
Mr. Nicklin’s substitute was taken up for consideration. 
On motion of the Rev. Dr. Tyng, it was 


“Resolved, To amend the substitute by inserting the word 
‘other’ before the word ‘persons,’ where it last occurs, and omitting 
after the aforesaid word the words ‘in the city or county of Phila- 


delphia.’ ” 


Mr. Nicklin’s substitute for the Seventh Article was adopted 
as thus amended. 

On motion, the Eighth Article was adopted. 

On motion, the Ninth Article was adopted. 

On motion, the Tenth Article was adopted. 

The Eleventh Article being proposed for adoption, the Hon. 
J. B. Eccleston moved the following addition at the close of the 
same : 

‘And no Clergyman shall be appointed a Missionary who is not 
at the time a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, of 
regular standing; and the appointment of a Missionary may be 


annulled at any time by the written direction or order of a majority 
of the Bishops of the Church.” 


On motion, the Eleventh Article, as amended, was adopted. 
On motion of the Right Rev. H. U. Onderdonk, the follow- 
ing Resolution was adopted: 


‘No person shall act in any Diocese as an Agent for the collection 
of funds, or in measures tending thereto, against the declared will 
of the ecclesiastical authority of the same.” 


On motion of the same, it was 
“Resolved, That the foregoing be numbered Article XII.” 


On motion, the Twelfth Article, as reported by the Com- 
mittee, now the thirteenth, in consequence of the introduction 
of the foregoing, was adopted. 


1895. Proceedings of the Society. 285 


On motion of Dr. Wainwright, it was 
“ Resolved, To reconsider the Twelfth Article.” 


On motion, adjourned until half past seven o’clock p.m. 


Wepnespay, August 26—T4 o'clock p.m. 

The Right Rev. Bishop White in the chair. 

The Twelfth Article was called up for reconsideration. — 

Bishop H. U. Onderdonk moved the adoption of that Article. 

After much discussion, this motion was lost. 

On motion, the Society adjourned until Thursday, at eight 
o’clock a.m. 

Tuurspay, August 27—8 o’clock a.m. 

The Society met. The Right Rev. Bishop Meade in the 
chair. | 

After prayers, the Minutes of the preceding meeting were 
read. | 

On motion of the Rev. Dr. Tyng, it was 


“Resolved, That the Board of Missions, provided for in the 
Third Article of the Constitution, shall in all cases continue in 
office until a new Board be elected.” 


On motion, it was 


“Resolved, That the foregoing be considered as the Twelfth 
Article of the Constitution.” 


On motion of the Hon. J. B. Eccleston, the following Resolu- 
tion in relation to the Constitution was adopted : 


“That this Constitution shall be unalterable, unless the alter- 
ation be proposed in one General Convention and. entered upon 
their Journal, and ratified in the ensuing General Convention; or 
unless, by a majority of two thirds of the House of Bishops and of 
two thirds of the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies in one Gen- 
eral Convention.” 


On motion of Dr. Tyng, it was 


“Resolved, That the foregoing be considered as the Thirteenth 
Article of the Constitution.” 


286 Proceedings of the Socvety. 1836, 


The question on the adoption of the whole Constitution 
recurring, Dr. Milnor moved to reconsider the Seventh Article, 
in order to strike out the words “ New York,” which was adopted. 

On motion, the words “ New York” were stricken out. 

On motion of Dr. Milnor, the following was added at the 
close of the first paragraph of the same Article: 


“The Committee for Foreign Missions shall be located in the 
city of New York, and the Committee for Domestic Missions shall 
be located in the city of Philadelphia.” 


On motion of Dr. Milnor, it was 
“Resolved, To reconsider the foregoing.” 


On motion of the same, the following was adopted as a sub- 
stitute : 


“The Board of Missions shall determine the location of the 
Committees respectively.” 


On motion, the whole Article, as thus amended, was adopted. 
On motion, it was 


“Resolved, That when this meeting do adjourn, it adjourn to 
meet at half past four o’clock this afternoon.” 


On motion of Dr. Tyng, it was 
“Resolved, To adopt the whole Constitution, as amended.” 
On motion of Dr. Tyng, it was 


“Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to present accredited 
copies of the Constitution to the two Houses of the General Con- 
vention.” 


The Committee appointed were Drs. Milnor and Wainwright, 
and Messrs. Wheeler and Eccleston. 


On motion, it was 


“Resolved, That the Right Rev. Bishops McIlvaine and Doane 
be added to the Committee.” 


1835, Proceedings of the Society. 287 
On motion, adjourned. 


Tuurspay, August 27—44 o’clock p.m. 


The Society met. Bishop Doane in the chair. 
On motion of the Rev. Dr. Tyng, it was 


“Resolved, To dispense with the reading of the Minutes of the 
last meeting.” 


On motion of the same, it was 


“ Resolved, That when the Society adjourn, it adjourn until half 
past four o’clock on Friday afternoon.” 


On motion, adjourned. 


Fripay, Awyust 283—44 o'clock p.m. 
The Society met. The Right Rev. Bishop Doane in the chair. 
After prayers, the Minutes of the last meeting were read. 
On motion of Dr. Tyng, it was 


“Resolved, That the cordial thanks of the Society be given to 
the Secretary and Treasurer of the Society for their faithful dis- 
charge of the duties devolved upon them, and that they be 
requested to continue the discharge of the duties of their several 
offices until others are duly elected to these offices.” 


On motion of Dr. Milnor, it was 


“ Resolved, That two thousand copies of the Annual Report of 
the Board of Directors be published, under the direction of the 
Secretary.” 


On motion, it was 


“Resolved, That the Constitution of the Society be appended to 
the Sermon preached before the Society, as well as to the Annual 
Report.” 


The Rev. Dr. Anthon, Secretary of the House of Clerical 
and Lay Deputies, stated that the General Convention had 
adopted the new Constitution of the Society, with the following 
amendments : 


288 Proceedings of the Socrety. 1885. 


“Art. VI. Line the first, the words ‘hold its first meeting at the 
call of the Presiding Bishop and,’ inserted after the word ‘shall’ ; 
and the word ‘thereafter’ inserted after ‘annually.’ 

“Art. VII. Lines fourth and sixth, the words ‘ Bishop of the 
Diocese in which the Committee shall be located’ inserted instead 
of the word ‘ Diocesan.’ | 

“Art. VIII. Line second,- ‘departments’ inserted instead of 
‘ fields,’ and in line third, ‘work’ inserted instead of ‘ department.’ 

“Art. IX. Line first, the words ‘the Board of Missions’ inserted 
instead of ‘each Committee,’ and the words ‘for each Committee’ 
inserted after the word ‘appoint.’ Line seventh, ‘for whom’ sub- 
stituted for ‘by whom’; line eighth, after the words ‘ appoint a 
Treasurer,’ the following clause added: ‘And the Board shall 
designate which of the Treasurers so appointed shall be authorized 
to receive all moneys not specifically appropriated, which moneys 
shall be at the disposal of the Board.’ 

“Art, XI. Line third, the words ‘ ecclesiastical authority’ sub- 
stituted for ‘ Bishop.’ 

“Arr, XIII. Struck out, and Art. XIV. made the XIII. 

*¢ Attest :. Henry Antruon, Secretary.” 


On motion of Dr. Milnor, it was 


“Resolved, That the Society adopt the amendments in the Con- 
stitution proposed by the General Convention.” 


On motion of Dr. Milnor, it was 


“Resolved, That the whole Constitution, as amended, be adopt- 
ed;” 


On motion of Dr. Tyng, the following Resolutions were 


adopted : 


“That the Executive Committee be requested to continue the 
discharge of their duties until the two Committees provided for by 
the Constitution be duly appointed by the Board of Missions; and 
that the Secretary and Treasurer of the ‘Domestic and Foreign 
Missionary Society’ be directed to deliver all the books, papers, 
moneys, and other property of the Society, to the proper officers 
constituted under the Board of Missions appointed by the present 
General Convention.” 


1835. Proceedings of the Society. 989 


Bishop Doane, on behalf of the Committee appointed to 
prepare from the general view of the proceedings of the Society 
for the preceding three years, as prepared by the Secretary, pre- 
sented that document itself as the report of the Committee; 
whereupon, on motion of Bishop H. U. Onderdonk, it was 


“ Resolved, That the Report of the Committee be adopted as the 


Report of the Society, and, as such, be presented by the Chairman 


of the Committee to both Houses of the General Convention.” 
On motion of Dr. Hawks, it was 
* Resolved, 'To adjourn sine die.” 


Wittiam Waiter, President. 
PETER VAN PELr, Secretary. 


The proceedings of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary 
Society, under its first Constitution, are here brought to a final 
conclusion. 

We give, on the next page, a tabular statement of the receipts 
of the Society from the date of its organization, in 182], to the 
Triennial Meeting, in 1835. The subsequent pages are devoted 
to the organization of the Board of Missions, according to the 
provisions of the new Constitution. ° 


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BOARD OF MISSIONS 


OF THE 


PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 


Tue First Meeting of the “ Board of Missions of the Protes- 
tant Episcopal Church in the United States of America,” was 
held in St. Andrew’s Church, Philadelphia, September 1, 1835, 


at twelve o’clock mo. 


Present, The Right Rev. Bishops White, Griswold, Chase, 
Brownell, H. U. Onderdonk, B. T. Onderdonk, Stone, Meade, 
Mellvaine, Smith, Doane, Otey; the Rev. Drs. Burroughs, Cros- 
well, Anthon, Mason, Milnor, Mead, Hawks, Tyng, Wyatt; the 
Rev. Messrs. Cuming, Richmond, Allen, Henderson, Van Pelt, 
J. S. Stone, Dunn, James, Polk, Rodney, and the Secretary ; 
Messrs. Nicklin, Magruder, Wheeler, James S. Smith, Wallace, 
Eccleston, Mallett, Cooke, Lovell. 

The Right Rev. Bishop White in the chair. 

On motion of the Rev. Dr. Tyng, it was 


“ Resolved, That the Rev. Mr. Van Pelt be requested to act as 
Secretary pro tem. of this Board.” 


On motion of the Secretary, it was 


“ Resolved, that the Rev. Rk. A. Henderson be appointed -Assist- 
ant Secretary.” 


On motion of the Secretary, it was 


“ Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to examine and 


292 Proceedings of the Board of Missions. 1835. 


report who are members of this Board, on the eround of having 
become Patrons previous to the General Convention in 1829.” 


The Committee appointed were the Secretary, the Rev. R. A. 
Henderson, and Dr. Tyng. 
Dr. Tyng moved— 


“That the Board proceed to fix the location of the two Com- 
mittees required by the Seventh Article of the Constitution, and that 
the Foreign Committee be located at Boston, and the Domestic 
Committee at New York.” 


The Rey. Mr. Richmond moved to amend the foregoing so as 
to locate both Committees at New York. _ 

Dr. Burroughs moved to divide the question, and eet: the 
Domestic ean Ee at New York. 

At the call of Mr. Wheeler, the Board determined to divide 
the question. 

The question recurring on Dr. Burroughs’s motion to locate 
the Domestic Committee in New York, Mr. Nicklin moved to 
amend the same by substituting “ Philadelphia ” for “ New York.” 

On motion of Mr. James, it was 


“ Resolved, To lay on the table the resolution and aT 
relating to the Domestic Committee.” 


Bishop Smith moved to amend Dr. Tyng’s resolution, so far 
as it related to the location of the Foreign Committee, by striking 
out the word “ Boston” and inserting ‘ New York.” 

Dr. Hawks proposed to substitute in the foregoing, “ Phila- 
delphia ” for “ New York.” 

On motion of Bishop H. U. Onderdonk, it was 


“ Resolved, To lay the whole matter on the table.” 
On motion of Bishop Doane, it was 


“ Resolved, That the two Committees shall be located in separate 
places.” 


The Rev. Mr. James moved that the Foreign Committee be 
located in Boston, which was negatived. 


1835. Proceedings of the Board of Missions. | 293 


On motion of Dr. Hawks, it was 


“Resolved, That the Foreign Committee be located in Philadel- 
phia.” 


On motion of the same, it was 


“Resolved, That the Domestic Committee be located in New 
mark.’ 


On motion of Dr. Tyng, it was 


“Resolved, That the Board proceed to the appointment of the 
two Committees.” ; 


On motion of Dr. Mead, it was 


“ Resolved, That a Committee of five persons be appointed to 
nominate suitable persons for the Domestic Committee.” 


The Committee appointed were Bishop B. T. Onderdonk, 
Rey. Drs. Milnor, Tyng, Hawks, and Mead. 
On motion of Bishop Doane, it was_ 


“ Resolved, That a Committee of five persons be appointed to 
nominate suitable persons for the Foreign Committee.” 


The Committee appointed were Bishops H. U. Onderdonk, 
Smith, and Doahe; the Rev. Mr. James, and Mr. Nicklin. 
On motion of the Secretary, it was 


** Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to draft the By-laws 
contemplated by the Fourth Article of the Constitution.” 


The Committee appointed were the Secretary, Messrs. Wal- 
lace, J. S. Smith, and Wheeler, and the Rev. J. Rodney. 

Bishop B. T. Onderdonk, on behalf of the Committee to 
nominate persons to constitute the Domestic Committee, reported 
the following names: 


Rev. James Milnor, p.p, Mr. Henry Cary, 
“ Francis L. Hawks, p.p., « Brittain L. Woolley, 
¢ Manton Eastburn, “¢ Anson Blake, 


“¢ Henry Anthon, p.p., * Murray Hoffman. 


294 Proceedings of the Board of Missions. 1885. 
On motion of Dr. Mead, it was 


“Resolved, That the above-named persons be the Domestic 
Committee.” 


Bishop H. U. Onderdonk, on behalf of the Committee to 
nominate individuals to compose the Foreign Committee, reported 
the following names: 


Rev. Dr. Tyng, Mr. P. H. Nicklin, 
“Mr. James, “J. B. Walia 
“Mr. Ducachet, “ L. R. Ashhurst, 
«6 Mr. McCoskry, “ John Welsh, Jr. 


On motion of Dr. Milnor, it was 


“Resolved, That the above-named persons be the Foreign Com- 
mittee.” 


On motion of Bishop Meade, it was 


“Resolved, That the appointment of Secretaries and General 
Agents be postponed until a future meeting of the Board.” 


On motion of Bishop Meade, it was 


“Resolved, That when the Board adjourn, they adjourn to meet 
immediately after the final adjournment of the General Conven- 
tion.” 


On motion, adjourned. 


The Board met at ten o’clock p.m. The Right Rev. H. U. 
Onderdonk in the chair. 
On motion, it was 


“Resolved, To adjourn until ten o’clock on Wednesday morn- 
ing.” 


The Board met on Wednesday morning at ten o’clock. — 
Present, The Right. Rev. Bishops White, H. U. Onderdonk, 
B. T. Onderdonk, McIlvaine, and Doane; the Rev. Drs. Tyng, 


"1885. Proceedings of the Board of Missions. 295 


Hawks, and Burroughs; the Rev. Messrs. Ducachet, James, Polk, 
Cuming, W. Richmond, Rodney, Henderson, and the Secretary ; 
Messrs. J. S. Smith, Wallace, Eccleston, Nicklin, Lovell, Mallett, 


and Dr. Cooke. 


The Right Rev. Bishop White in the chair. 
After prayers by the Presiding Officer, the Minutes of the 


last meeting were read. 


‘The Committee appointed to examine and report who are 
members of the Board, on the ground of their having become 
Patrons previous to the General Convention in 1829, reported the 


following names: 


Rev. Jas. Abercrombie, p.p., 


* Henry Anthon, p.p., 
“ Thomas G. Allen, 
“ George Boyd, 


“Frederick Beasley, p.p., 


“Alfred L. Baury, 
“David Butler, p.p., 


“ Charles Burroughs, p.p., 


“ 6S. C. Brinckle, 
eee Cutler, 
oul. b. Croes, 

€ “John Croes, 
“ James Chapman, 
“« F. H. Cuming, 


Se Wm.-H, DeLancey, v.p., 


¢ A. Eaton, D.D., 
heels Ldson, 

“« 6J.P. K. Henshaw, p.p., 
“RR. A. Henderson, 
J. C. Herbert, Esq., Md., 
Rey. 8. F.. Jarvis, p.v., 

“ William Jackson, 
William Jay, Esq., 
Rev. J. Kemper, p.p., 
F. 8. Key, Esq., 
Rev. Willam F, Lee, 


Rev. R. 5. Mason, p.p., 

se “J. Morse, D.D., 

“¢ ~James Milnor, p.p., 

oo WoO. Mead, p-p., 

“BR. U. Morgan, 

A. C, Magruder, Esq., 
Joseph Marsh, Esq., 
Casper Morris, M.D., 
Rev. Samuel Nichols, 

“Bo G. Noble, 
Philip H. Nicklin, Esq., 
E. A. Newton, Esq., 
Rev. A. Potter, p.p., 

“68. W. Presstman, 
John Pintard, Esq., 
George Pomeroy, Esq., 

Rey. William Richmond, 

“SJ. J. Robertson, v.v., 

J. Rodney, 

“  R. Sherwood, 

“8. H. Turner, v.p., 
E. Tuckerman, Esq., 
Rey. P. Van Pelt, 

J. WK. Walker, 

“ George Weller, D.p., 

Bird Wilson, p.v. 


The Committee on By-laws reported the following: 


296 Proceedings of the Board of Missions. — 1835. 


“ART, I. The Annual Meetings provided for in the Sixth Article of the 
Constitution shall be held in Brahe a ee reasonable notice to be given 
thereof through the post-office. 

“Art. II. Special meetings of the Board may be called on the joint request 
of the two Executive Committees, or on the order of the Presiding Bishop, or 
any two Bishops; reasonable notice being given through the post-office. 

“ArT, II. The Treasurers, respectively, shall keep an account with each 
Missionary of their respective departments. 

“They shall pay no moneys except by the order of their respective Com- 
mittees, or of the Board. 

“They shall render an account at the Annual Meetings of the Board, and 
at the Triennial Meetings ‘of the Society. 

“ArT. [V. Each Committee shall appoint an Auditor to examine accounts. 

«Arr. V. The Secretary of the Foreign Committee shall be the Secretary 
of the Board. 

“ArT. VI. Five members shall constitute a quorum for each Committee. 

“ArT. VII. Vacancies occurring in either of the Committees during the 
recess of the Board shall not be filled at the same meeting at which they are 
announced ; and information of a vacancy to be supplied shall be given to each 
member. 

“Arr. VII. There shall be an Annual and Triennial Sermon before the 
Board of Missions ; the preacher to be appointed by the Committees alternately, 
beginning with the Foreign Committee. 

“Art. IX. The Rules of Order customary in similar institutions shall 
prevail.” 


On motion, it was 


“Resolved, That the By-laws be read and considered by para- 
graphs.” | 


On motion of Dr. Tyng, it was 
““feesolved, That the First Article be stricken out.” 


On motion, the Second Article was adopted. 
On motion, it was 


‘Resolved, To amend the second section of the Third Article by 
striking out ‘and at the Triennial Meetings of the Society.’ ” 


On motion, the Article, as amended, was adopted. 
On motion, the Fourth Article was stricken out. 
On motion of Dr. Tyng, it was 


“Tesolved, To adopt the following as a substitute for the Fifth 


1835. Proceedings of the Board of Missions. 297 


Article: ‘The Board, at every Annual Meeting, shall appoint a 


Secretary, who shall continue in office until another is appointed.’ ” 


On motion, the Sixth Article was adopted. 
On motion, the Seventh Article was adopted. 
On motion, the Eighth Article was adopted. 
On motion, the Ninth Article was adopted. 
On motion, it was 


“Resolved, That the Articles, as thus amended, bg adopted as 
the By-laws of the Board.” 


A communication from Charles Wheeler, Esq., tendering his 
resignation as a member of ie Board, harine been read, it was, 
on motion, | 


“Resolved, That Mr. Wheeler’s resignation be accepted.” 


On motion of the Rev. Mr. James, a Committee was appointed 
to nominate three suitable individuals, one of whom should be 
chosen to fill the vacancy oecasioned by Mr. Wheeler’s resigna- 
tion. 

The Committee appointed were Bishop H. U. oe 
the Rev. Messrs. James and W. Richmond. 

Bishop Onderdonk, on behalf of this Committee, nominated 
Messrs. Tobias Wagner, C. N. Bancker, and Joseph Watson. 

The Rev. Dr. Tyng also nominated the Rev. John A. Clark. 

Dr. Tyng and Mr. Nicklin having, on motion, been appointed 
tellers, reported Mr. Wagner as duly elected. 

On motion of Bishop Doane, the POLO vane Resolutions were 
adopted : 


“That the State of Louisiana and the Territories of Arkansas 
and Florida be, and they hereby are, appointed the station of a 
Missionary Bishop. 

“That the States of Missouri and Indiana be, and they hereby 
are, appointed the station of a Missionary Bishop.” 


On motion of the same, it was 


“Resolved, That $2,000 be appropriated as a salary to each of 
the Missionary Bishops.” 


298 Proceedings of the Board of Missions. 1835, 


On motion of Mr. Nickhn, it was 


“ Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to nominate a suit- 
able person as Secretary of this Board.” 


Mr. Nicklin, Bishop Doane, and Dr. Cooke were appointed 
the Committee. 
On motion of the Rev. Mr. James, it was 


“Resolved, That a Committee of this Board be appointed to take 
order as to a Missionary Paper, to be devoted to its interests, with 
full power to determine on the place from whence it shall issue; to 
appoint the editor, and determine on a compensation to the same, 
if necessary, and to prescribe the necessary directions; provided, 
however, that all subscribers to The Missionary Racard who have 
paid their subscriptions shall be entitled to receive the publication 
of the Board until the close of the current year.” ' 


Bishops Doane and H. U. Onderdonk, the Rev. Mr. James, 
and Messrs. Nicklin and Wallace were appointed the Committee. 

The Committee on nominating a Secretary reported that they 
had unanimously agreed upon the Rev. Mr. Van Pelt; where- 
upon, on motion of Bishop B. T. Onderdonk, it was 


“ Resolved, That the Board concur in this nomination.” 
On motion of Bishop Doane, it was 


“Resolved, That the thanks of this Board be presented to the 
late Executive Committee.” 


On motion of Dr. Cooke, it was 


“Resolved, That this Board earnestly recommend that the con- 
tributions of the members of the Church for the support of Missions 
be made, as far as shall be convenient, upon some plan of systematic 
charity, that their effect may be the greater, and that their con- 
tinuance may be the more relied on.” 


On motion of Mr. Nicklin, it was 


“Resolved, That the Secretary and Treasurer of the Domestic 


1885. Proceedings of the Board of Missions. 299 


and Foreign Missionary Society, in office before the last Triennial 
Meeting, be requested to perform their respective duties for the 
Foreign Committee until others are appointed to these offices.” 


On motion of the Secretary, it was 


“Resolved, That the proceedings of this Board be published in 
The Missionary Record for September, and that the editor be 
authorized to extend that number, if it be necessary, to contain the 
same.” . 

Bishop Doane moved to reconsider the resolution adopted on 
the 1st instant, deferring the appointment of Secretaries and 
General Agents, which was negatived. 

Bishop H. U. Onderdonk moved that the Presiding Bishop 
be requested to call a Special Meeting of this Board on the 
evening preceding the Consecration of the Missionary Bishops 
elect. 

On motion of Bishop Doane, the following was adopted as a 
substitute for the foregoing : 


“ WueEreEAS, By an apparent misunderstanding on the part of 
some of the members of this Board, the appointment of the Secre- 
taries and General Agents of the Board has been laid over to a 
succeeding meeting; and whereas, in the opinion of the Board, it is 
of the utmost importance that these officers should be appointed at 
the earliest possible day; therefore, | 

“Resolved, That the Board will hold an Adjourned Mecting in 
the Society’s rooms, in the city of Philadelphia, on Wednesday, the 
23d day of September, at half past seven o’clock P.m., for the pur- 
pose of electing a Secretary and General Agent for Domestic Mis- 
sions, and a Secretary and General Agent for Foreign Missions, and 
for such other business as may be brought before the Board.” 


On motion of Bishop B. T. Onderdonk, it was 


“ Resolved, That the Treasurer of the Foreign Committee be 
authorized to receive moneys contributed without any specific desig- 
nation.” = 


On motion of Mr. Nicklin, it was 


“Resolved, That the Secretary of this Board be authorized to 


300 Proceedings of the Board of Missions. 1835. 


draw upon the Treasurer of the Foreign Committee for any expense 
incurred for printing and stationery on account of the Board.” 


On motion, it was 


“Resolved, To reconsider the resolution appointing the Treasurer 
of the Foreign Committee as the recipient of wnappropriated con- 
tributions.” 


On motion, it was 


“Fesolved, 'That the Treasurer of the Domestic Committee be 
the depository of all moneys not specifically appropriated.” 


On motion of the Hon. J. B. Eccleston, it was 


“Resolved, That the unappropriated funds at present in the 
Treasury be placed at the disposal of the Domestic Committee.” 


On motion of the Hon. J. B. Eccleston, it was 


“Resolved, That the next Annual Meeting of this Board be held 
in Trinity Church, in the city of New York, on Wednesday pre- 
ceding the Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the General 
Theological Seminary.” 


The Board adjourned. 
Wititiam Wurrts, President. - 


Prrer Van Petr, Secretary. 


ADJOURNED MEETING OF THE BOARD OF MISSIONS 


Held at the Society’s Room, ‘Philadelphia, September 23, 
1835, at half past seven p.m. 

Pen The Rt.- Rev. Bishops Chase, H. U2 and) Bast: 
Onderdonk, Smith, and Doane; the Rev. Drs. Abercrombie, Mil- 
nor, Henshaw, Kemper, Johns, and Mead; the Rev. Messrs. 
Allen, James, McCoskry, Ducachet, Boyd, W. Richmond, Cutler, 
Cuming, Wm. Jackson, Morehouse, Rodney, Henderson, Presst- 
man, and the Secretary; Messrs. Nicklin, Wallace, Stuyvesant, 
Tuckerman, J. S. Smith, Robins, Ashhurst, Welsh, Wagner, 
and Dr. Morris. 

' The Rt. Rev. Bishop Chase in the chair. 


1885. Proceedings of the Board of Missions. 301 


After prayers by the presiding officer, and the calling of the 
roll, ; 

On motion of the Secretary, the Rev. R. A. Henderson was 
appointed Assistant Secretary. 

The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 

Bishop Doane moved that a committee be appointed to nomi- 
nate a Secretary and General Agent for Domestic Missions, and 
a Secretary and General Agent for Foreign Missions. 
The Rey. Dr. Henshaw moved as a substitute, That the 
Board now proceed to an election for the Secretaries and General 
Agents. 

On motion of the Rev. Dr. Ducachet, it was 


“Resolved, To postpone the consideration of this subject in order 
to take up the subject of salary.” 


Bishop H. U. Onderdonk moved that $1,500, exclusive of 
travelling expenses, be the amount of salary to be allowed the 
Secretary and General Agent of the Committee for Foreign Af- 
fairs. The Rev. Dr. Henshaw moved to substitute $2,500 in the 
place of $1,500. 

Bishop Doane move to substitute $2,000 for the other sums 
mentioned. : 

The question being taken on the largest sum, Dr. Henshaw’s 
motion was negatived. 

The question recurring on $2,000, Mr. Robins moved to 
postpone the consideration of it in order to introduce a new 
proposition, when, 

On motion of the Rev. Mr. McCoskry, it was 


Resolved, To postpone the consideration of the whole subject 
in order to go into an election for the Secretaries and General 


Agents.” 


Bishop Doane’s resolution then coming up for consideration, 
Dr. Henshaw moved that the Board do now proceed to elect 
the Secretary and General Agent for the Committee on Domes- 
tic Missions, the election to be by ballot, after open nomination. 
Bishop B. T. Onderdonk moved to amend the foregoing by 


302: Proceedings of the Board of Missions. 1835, 


substituting after the word ‘ proceed,” the words “to an open 
viva voce nomination of suitable persons for Secretaries and Gen- 
eral Agents, and that when the Board adjourn, they adjourn to 
meet at hour to-morrow, for the purpose of going into an 
election ;” which was decided in the negative. 
The question then recurring on Dr. Henshaw’s resolution, it 
was carried. : 
The Rev. Dr. Milnor nominated the Rev. Wm. Jackson. 
The Rev. Dr. Mead nominated the Rev. Hugh Smith. 
Bishop B. T. Onderdonk nominated the Rey. Benjamin 
Dorr. 
Bishop H. U. Onderdonk nominated the Rev. Wm. D. Cairns. 
The Rev. Mr. McCoskry and Mr. John Welsh were appointed 
tellers. | 
On the second balloting, the Tellers reported the Rev. Mr. 
Dorr as elected by a majority of all the persons present. 
On motion of the Rev. Dr. Henshaw, it was 


“Resolved, That the Board do now proceed to the election of a 
Secretary and General Agent for the Committee for Foreign Mis- 
sions, the election to be by ballot, after viva voce nomination.” 


The Rev. Dr. Henshaw nominated the Rev. Dr Milnor. 

Mr. Nicklin nominated the Rev. Mr. Boyd. 

The Rev Mr. James nominated the Rev. Dr. Potter. 

The Rev. Mr. McCoskry and Mr. John Welsh were reappoint- 
ed tellers. . 

After the first balloting, on motion of Bishop H. U. Onder- 
donk, it was 


** Resolved, That the election shall be determined by the majori- 
ty of all the members present, and that the Secretary call upon the 
persons present by name for their votes.” 


After the third ballot, a motion was made to adjourn until 
nine o'clock a.m. on the 24th inst., which was lost. 

The Rev. Dr. Morris moved that the Board proceed to an- 
other balloting, when 

Bishop Doane proposed to amend the same by inserting after 


1885: Proceedings of the Board of Missions. 303 


the word ‘‘ proceed,” the words “to appoint a committee of five 
persons to nominate suitable candidates,” which was lost. 

The question then recurring on Dr. Morris’s resolution, it was 
carried. 

After the fourth ballot the tellers reported the Rev. Dr. Mil- 
nor as elected by a majority of all the persons present. 

The question in relation to the amount of salary to be allowed 
the Secretaries and General Agents then coming up for considera- 
tion, it was, on motion of Mr. Stuyvesant, 


* Resolved, To tix the salary of the pecreehy. and General Agent 
of the Committee for Domestic Missions.” 


Several sums having been proposed, the question on the high- 
est, $2,500, was taken and Jost. 
On motion of the Rev. Mr. McCoskry, it was 


“ Resolved, That $2,300 be the salary of the Secretary and Gen- 
eral Agent for the Committee on Domestic Missions.” 


Dr. Morris moved that the same sum be allowed the Sec- 
retary and General Agent of the Committee on I*oreign Missions. 

Bishop H. U. Onderdonk proposed $1,800. 

The Rev. Dr. Mead proposed $2,500, which was agreed to by 
Bishop Onderdonk, and on the question being put was Jost. 

Bishop Onderdonk renewed his proposal for $1,800, when the 
question being taken on the largest sum, $2,300, it was carried. 

On motion of the Rev. Mr. Cuming, it was 


“ Resolved, To adjourn until half past eight o’clock on Thursday 
morning, the 24th inst.” 

Adjourned. 

Tuurspay, September 24—8¢4 o’clock a.m. 

The Board met. Present, the Rt. Rev. Bishops Chase, H. U. 
and B. T. Onderdonk, Smith, and Doane; the Rev. Drs. Aber- 
crombie, Milnor, Tyng, and Mead; the Rev. Messrs Jackson, 
Morehouse, Pantaan, Cuming, Tocany, W. Richmond, Boyd, 
McCoskry, Ducachet, enter Allen, Henderson, and the Secre- 
tary; Messrs. cei, Stuyvesant, Wallace, “esa ed sly 
hurst, Wagner, and Dy Morris. 


304 Proceedings of the Board of Missions. 1885, 


Bishop Chase in the chair. 

After prayers by the presiding officer, the roll was called and 
the Minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 

The Secretary read a letter from Wm. Jay, Esq., requesting 
his name to be erased from the list of patrons; whereupon it was 


“ Resolved, That this request. be complied with.” 


A letter was read from James Swords, Esq., tendering his 
resignation as a member of the Board, and on motion, it was 


“ Resolved, That the resignation of Mr. Swords be accepted.” 


A letter was also read from Mr. D. Matthews, of Columbus, — 
Ohio, on the subject of printing the Prayer Book in the Mohawk 
noes which was referred to the Committee for Domestic 
Missions. 

The Rev. Mr. Van Pelt, as Secretary pro tem. of the Commit- 
tee for Foreign Missions, presented and read the Report of that 
body, prepared in compliance with the Eighth Article of the 
Constitution. 

Bishop B. T. Onderdonk, on behalf of the Committee for 
Domestic Missions, presented the Report of that body. 

On motion of Bishop H. U. Onderdonk, it was 


“ Resolved, That said Report be taken up for consideration.” 


Bishop H. U. Onderdonk moved the following: 

That in the opinion of this Board, neither the Board nor 
either of its Committees have any cognizance of the matter con- 
tained in that Report, and that the Domestic Committee be in- 
formed accordingly. 

Dr. Ducachet moved to lay the foregoing on the tebe which 
was determined in the negative. 

On motion of Bishop Doane, the following was adopted as a 
substitute for Bishop H. U. Onderdonk’s resolution : 

That in the opinion of this Board, the action of the Committee 
for Domestic Missions in relation to the appointment of the Rev. 
Dr. Hawks, was not within the limit of the powers entrusted to 
them. 


/ 


1635. Proceedings of the Board of Missions. 305 


Bishop Doane, on behalf of the Committee for Foreign Mis- 
sions, presented the By-laws adopted by that body. 
On motion of Bishop H. U. Onderdonk, it was 


ne Resolved, That when this Board adjourn, they adjourn to meet 
at half past seven o’clock this evening.” 


Bishop Smith submitted the following: 


“ Resolved, That the Committee for Foreign Missions of the 
‘Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church,’ be locat- 
ed in the City of New York; which, on motion of Bishop H. U. 
Onderdonk, was laid on the table.” 


The Rev. Mr. Boyd offered the following, which, at his own 
request, was laid on the table: | 


“ Resolved, That the Committee for Foreign Missions be, and 
they are hereby requested, if, upon inquiry, they shall think that 
the indications of Divine Providence are sufficiently plain to justify 
such a step, to send a Missionary or Missionaries to Persia, Armenia, 
_ or Georgia.” 


Adjourned. 
Tuurspay, Sept. 24—T7$ o'clock p.m. 

The Board met pursuant to adjournment. 

Present, The Rt. Rev. Bishops Chase, H. U. and B. T. 
~Onderdonk, Smith, and Doane; the Rev. Drs. Milnor, Tyng, 
and Mead; the Rev. Messrs. Allen, Boyd, McCoskry, RK. B. 
Croes, James, Jackson, Richmond, Henderson, Cuming, Du- 
eachet, and the Secretary ; Messrs. Nicklin, Tuckerman, Wallace, 
J. 8S. Smith, Welsh, Ashhurst, Wagner, Robins, and Dr. Morris. 

Bishop Chase in the chair. 

After prayers by the Chairman, the roll was called, and the 
Minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 

On motion, the Rt. Rev. Bishop Smith’s resolution, relative 
to a change of location of the Committee for Foreign Missions, 
was called up for consideration. 

The following amendment, proposed by Bishop B. T. Onder- 
donk, was accepted by the mover, viz., to insert the words “ from 
and after the 8th of October.” | 

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306 Proceedings of the Board of Missions. 1885. 


The resolution, as amended, was wnanimously adopted. 
On motion of Bishop Doane, it was 


“* Resolved, To reconsider the foregoing resolution.” 
On motion of the same, it was 


“ Resolved, To strike out the words “from and after the 8th of 
October.” 


On motion of Mr. Nicklin, the resolution, as thus amended, 
was adopted. 

The Rev. Mr. James, on behalf of the Committee for Foreign 
Missions, tendered the written resignation of the members of 
that body. 

On motion of Dr. Morris, it was 


““ Resolved, That the aforesaid resignations be accepted.” 
On motion of Mr. Wallace, it was 


** Resolved, That a Committee of three persons be appointed, to 
nominate four Clergymen and four Laymen, resident in the City of 
New York, as suitable persons to compose the Committee for 
Foreign Missions.” 


The Committee appointed were, the Rt. Rev. B. T. Onder- 
donk, the Rev. Dr. Milnor, and the Rev. Wm. Jackson. 

Bishop B. T. Onderdonk, on behalf of the Committee of 
Nomination, reported the following names: 

The Rev. James Milnor, p.p., the Rev. Wm. Jackson, the 
Rev. Manton Eastburn, the Rev. Jno. M. Forbes, Frederick S. 
Winston, Lewis Curtis, James F. De Peyster, John P. Stage. 


On motion of Bishop Doane, it was 


“ Resolved, That the persons named by the Committee be, and 
they are hereby appointed, the Committee for Foreign Missions.” 


Dr. Milnor tendered his resignation as a member of the Com- 
mittee for Domestic Missions, which was, on motion, accepted. 

Dr. Milnor, on behalf of the Rev. Manton Eastburn, tendered 
the resignation of that gentleman, as a member of the Committee 
for Domestic Missions, which was, on motion, accepted. 


= 


1885. Proceedings of the Board of Missions. 307 


On motion of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Doane, it was 


“ Resolved, That the Board do now proceed to fill the vacancies 
in the Committee for Domestic Missions.” 


On motion, the Committee of Nomination, previously ap- 
pointed, were requested to nominate two suitable persons to fill 
these vacancies; whereupon, the Rev. Hugh Smith and the Rev. 
Lot James were named. 

On motion, the above named gentlemen were appointed 
members of the Committee for Domestic Missions. 

On motion of Bishop B. T. Onderdonk, it was 


_ “ Resolved, That the Board do now proceed to fill the vacancy 
in this Board, occasioned by the resignation of James Swords, Esq.” 


On motion, the same Committee of Nomination were request- 
ed to present the names of three suitable persons. 
The Committee having reported, it was, on motion, 


“ Resolved, To proceed to an election by ballot.” 


The Rey. Mr. McCoskry and Dr. Morris were appointed 
tellers. 

The tellers reported Dr. Marinus Willett, of New York, as 
elected. 

The Rev. Mr. Boyd’s resolution was called up for considera- 
tion, and, on motion, adopted. 

On motion of the Rev. Mr Cuming, it was 


“ Resolved, That a joint Committee of four, to be chosen from 
the two Committees belonging to this Board, be appointed, to in- 
quire and report at the next annual meeting of this Board, whether 
some provision ought not to be made for Missionaries who, in the 
employment of this Society, may become disabled by age, or any 
other infirmity, from performing ministerial duty; and in case it 
shall be deemed expedient that such provision should be made, to 
report a plan for effecting the object—said joint Committee to be 
appointed by the Committees respectively, two by each.” 


Mr. T. Robins presented a bill from Mr. Stavely, for printing, 
which was, on motion, ordered to be paid. 


308 Proceedings of the Board of Missions. 1835. 


On motion of the Rev. Dr. Milnor, it was 


“‘ Resolved, That the Treasurer of the Committee for Foreign 
Missions be authorized to pay any bills which, in his judgment, are 
due by the Society, including those presented to the Foreign Com- 
mittee at their meeting on the 24th inst., and until the organiza- 
tion of the newly-appointed Foreign Committee.” 


The late Treasurer of the Society asked leave to charge the 
deficit in the account of the Green Bay Mission to ge General 
Mission account, which was granted. 

On motion of Bishop H. U. Onderdonk, it was 


“ Resolved, That the library and curiosities of the Society be 
retained as the pr Greta of this Board, and be put in charge of the 


For eign Committee.” | 


On motion of Bishop B. T. Onderdonk, the Treasurer and 
Secretary were appointed a Committee, with power to take order 
with regard to the tenement, furniture, and fixtures of the Society. 

On motion of Bishop H. U. Onderdonk, it was 


“ Resolved, That the Treasurer, and two legal gentlemen, be a 
Committee to report on the state of the permanent fund, at the next 
meeting of the Board.” 


Messrs. J. B. Wallace and James 8. Smith were appointed 
to act with the Treasurer. 
On motion, it was 


“« Resolved, That when this Board do adjourn, it adjourn to meet 
im the Vestry Room of St. Peter’s Church, on Friday, the 24th inst., 
immediately after the consecration service.” 


Adjourned. 
Fripay, September. 25—2 o’clock P.M. 
The Board met pursuant to adjournment. 

Present, The Rt. Rev. Bishops Moore, Chase, H. U. and B. T. 
Onderdonk, Smith, and Doane; the Rev. Drs. Milnor and Mead; 
the Rev. Messrs. Boyd, Cuming, Allen, Henderson, James, Rod- 
ney, Richmond, and the Secretary, and J. B. Wallace, Esq. 

The Minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 


RT. REY. BISHOP KEMPER,. 


1885, Proceedings of the Board of Missions. 809 


On motion of the Rt. Rev. B. T. Onderdonk, the following 
resolutions were unanimously adopted: . 


“ Resolved, That this Board, as the duly constituted representa- 
tive, for Missionary purposes, of the Protestant Episcopal Church 
in the United States, do, in the name of said Church, hereby re- 
spectfully and affectionately present their cordial Christian congratu- 
lations to their beloved fellow-member, the Right Rev. Jackson 
Kemper, D.p., on his accession, happily consummated this day, to 
the distinguished office of the first Missionary Bishop of our Church, 
and assure him of their prayers that the blessings of God’s provi- 
dence and grace may be abundantly vouchsafed him in the dis- 
charge of his high, holy, and arduous duties. 

“ Resolved, That we affectionately commend the Missionary 
Bishop to the prayers of our fellow-members generally of the 
Church.” 

“ Resolved, Than an attested copy of these resolutions be pre- 
sented to the Right Rev. Bishop Kemper, and another be published 
in the Missionary Record.” 


A letter from the Rt. Rev. J. H. Otey was read, and, on mo- 
tion, was referred to the Committee for Domestic Missions.” 
On motion of the Rev. Mr. Boyd, the following was adopted : 


“ Resolved, That the Right Rev. Bishop Doane be requested to 
furnish to this Board for publication, a copy of the very highly in- 
teresting and appropriate discourse delivered by him this morning, 
on the occasion of the Consecration of the Right Rev. Jackson Kem- 
per, D.D., as the first Missionary Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church in the United States.” 


On motion of Bishop H. U. Onderdonk, 


“ Resolved, That the expense to be incurred by the publication 
of Bishop Doane’s sermon be charged to the General Fund of the . 
Society.” 


On motion of the same, it was 


“ Resolved, That Bishop Doane and the Secretary of the Board 
be a Committee to superintend the publication of the sermon.” 


310 Proceedings of the Board of Missions. 1835, 


On motion of Bishop Doane, the following preamble and 
resolution were adopted: | 


“© Whereas, The Rev W. A. Muhlenberg, p.p., on behalf of him- 
self and the Missionary Society of the Flushing Institute, has com- 
municated to this Board, through the Rev. Dr. Kemper, his inten- 
tion to contribute for five years the sum of $200 toward the forma- 
tion of a Fund from which the Missionary Bishops of this Church 
may be enabled to add to the appropriation made by this Society to 
the Missionaries under their care. Therefore 3 

““ Resolved, As the opinion of this Board, that the example thus 
set is worthy of imitation, and is hereby recommended to the pious 
liberality of the members of the Church.” 


On motion of Bishop Doane, it was 


“ Resolved, That the Secretary of the Board be requested to 
continue his services as Editor of the Missionary Record until the 


end of the present year.” 
/ 


On motion of Bishop B. T. Onderdonk, it was — 


“ Resolved, That seven o’clock p.m. be the hour of the next An- 
nual Meeting of this Board.” 


Adjourned. 
Wan. Wurrs, President 
P. Van Putt, Secretary. 


BOARD OF MISSIONS OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 


Rr. Rev. Wu. Warts, President. 
Rt. Rev. A. V. Griswold, p.p., © Rt. Rev. B. T. Onderdonk, p.p., 


“OR. C. Moore, p.p., 0) LS ives aaa 
Satie. bewen, D.D:, < «~~ 3B. Bas mings 

Pie sabe ten Nase. 5D, Dre 6 MJ HD op ke 
co 6 'T. C. Brownell, p.p., OC, PB. Meclivaineya.n,, 
“« « H,.U. Onderdonk, p.v.,¢% “> GoW osha anaes 
cif? Wim Meade, 'p:n;, Co) Sos J Oe yee oatae 


oe Wim Mi Stome<pip:: “«  “ Jackson Kemper, D.D. 


1835. 


Rev. James Abercrombie, p.p., 


Proceedings of the Board of Missions. orl 


Life Members of the Board, by having become patrons of the 
Society previous to the General Convention in 1829: 


Henry Anthon, v.p., 
Thomas G. Allen, D.v., 
George Boyd, 
Frederick Beasley, p.D., 
Alfred L, Baury, 
David Butler, p.p., 
Charles Burroughs, D.D., 
8. C. Brinckle, 
B. C. Cutler, 

~ KR. B. Croes, 

John Croes, 

James Chapman, 

F. H. Cuming, 

Wm. H. DeLancey, p.v., 

A, Eaton, D.D., 

T. Edson, 

J. P. K. Henshaw, p.p., 

Rh. A. Henderson, 

J. C. Herbert, Esq., 

8. F. Jarvis, p.D., 

William Jackson, 

F. 8. Key, Esq., 


Rev. Wm. I’. Lee, 


66 


R. 5. Mason, v.p., 


Rev. 


6¢ 


ce 


66 


J. Morse, p.p., 

James Milnor, p.p., 
W. C. Mead, p.p., 

Rk. U. Morgan, 

A. C. Magruder, Esq., 
Joseph Marsh, Esq., 
Caspar Morris, M.D., 
Samuel Nichols, 

B. G. Noble, 

Philip H. Nicklin, Esq., 
EK. A. Newton, Esq., 


. A. Potter, p.v., 


S. W. Presstman, 
John Pintard, Esq., 
George Pomeroy, Esq., 
Wm. Richmond, 
J. J. Robertson, D.p., 
J. Rodney, 

R. Sherwood, 

S. H. Turner, p.p., 

EK. Tuckerman, Esq., 


; P. Van Pelt, 


J. R. Walker, 
George Weller, p.p., 
Bird Wilson, v.p. 


® 


Members for three years, appointed by the General Convention in 


My. 


1835: 


Massachusetts.—The Rey. J. M. Wainright, p.p., the Rev. John 
S. Stone, Simon Greenleaf, and Edward Tuckerman, Esqs. 

Rhode Island.—Stephen Northam, Esq. 

Connecticut.—The Rev. H. Croswell, p.p., Samuel H. Hunting- 
ton, Esq. 
New York.—The Rey. F. L. Hawks, p.p., the Rev. M. East- 
burn, the Rev. W. L. Johnson, Samuel Ward and Peter G. Stuyve-. 
sant, Esqs., and Marinus Willett, m.p. 
New Jersey.—The Rev. C. Dunn, the Rev. G. Y. Morehouse, 


Joseph Lovell. 


312 Proceedings of the Board of Missions. 1835, 


- Pennsylvania.—The Rev. 8. H. Tyng, p.p., the Rev. J. W. 
James, the Rev. 8. A. McCoskry, J. B. Wallace. James 5. Smith, 
and Tobias Wagner, Esqs. 

Maryland. The Rev. Wm. Wyatt, p.p., the Rev. John J ohns, : 
p.p., Hon. J. B. Eccleston. 

Virginia.—The Rev. E, C. M’Guire, John Gray, Esq. 

North Carolina.—Chas. P. Mallett, Esq. 

Kentucky.—Dr. John E. Cooke. 

Tennessee.—The Rev. Leonidas Polk. 


Secretary of the Board: 
Rev. P. Van PEtt. 


COMMITTEES LOCATED AT NEW YORK. 


For Domestic Missions: : 


Rev. F. L. Hawks, p.p., Mr. Henry Cary, 
“ H.Anthon, p.D., ‘“« Brittain L. Woolley, 
“¢ Hugh Smith, “« Anson Blake, 
‘¢ Lot Jones, ‘¢ Murray Hoffman. 


Secretary and General Agent: 


Rey. Benjamin Dorr. 
Treasurer.* 


Kor Foreign Missions : 


Bev. J. Milnor, p.p., 4 Mr. Frederick 8. Winston, 
*¢ M. Eastburn, “« Lewis Curtis, 
“ William Jackson, “ James F. De Peyster, 
<6. M. Forbes, «John P. Stagg. 


Secretary and General Agent: 


Rev. James Milnor, p.v. 


Treasurer;* 


* These offices have not yet been filled. Mr. Thomas Robins, late Treasurer, 
No. 96 Market street, Philadelphia, will continue to act until his place is sup- 
plied. 


185, Proceedings of the Board of Missions. 318 


CONSTITUTION 


_ Of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal 


Church in the United States of America, as established in 1821, and amend- 
ed in 1828, 1829, 1832, and 1835. 


_“ArtrtcLE I. This Institution shall be denominated ‘The Domestic and 
Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United 


' States of America.’ 


“ART. II. The Society shall be considered as comprehending all persons 
who are members of this Church. 

“ArT, II]. At every triennial meeting of the General Convention, which is 
the constituted representative body of the whole Protestant Episcopal Church 
in these United States, there shall be appointed, by a concurrent vote, on nomi- 
nation by a joint Committee of the two Houses, a Board of thirty members, 
who, together with the Bishops of this Church, and such persons as became 
patrons of the Society before the meeting of the General Convention in the 
year 1829, shall be called the ‘Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church in the United States of America.’ The said Committee of Nomination 
shall consist of three Bishops, to be elected by ballot in the House of Bishops, 
and three Presbyters and three Laymen, to be elected by ballot in the House 
of Clerical and Lay Deputies. 

“ArT. IV. To the Board of Missions shall be entrusted the sinerelaon of 
the general Missionary operations of the Church, with power to establish Mis- 
sionary stations, appoint Missionaries, make appropriations of money, regulate 
the conducting of Missions, fill any vacancies in their numbers which may 
occur, and also to enact all By-laws which they may deem necessary for their 
own government, and the government of their Committees. 

“ArT. V. The presiding Bishop of the Church shall be the President of the 
Board, and in his absence the senior Bishop present shall preside; in the ab- 
sence of all the Bishops, the Board shall elect a President pro tempore. 

“Art. VI. The Board of Missions shall hold its first meeting at the call of 
the presiding Bishop, and meet annually thereafter at such time and place as 
may have been appointed at the previous Annual Meeting, and also on the 
second day of the meeting of the General Convention, at the place of its meet- 
ing. They shall publish an Annual Report of their proceedengs for the in- 
formation of the Society, and present a Triennial Report to each stated General 
Convention. 

“ At all meetings of the Board, ten members shall form a quorum. Special 
meetings of the Board may be called as shall be provided in their own By-laws. 

“ArT. VII. The Board, as soon as may be after it has been constituted, 
shall proceed to appoint eight persons, four of whom shall be Clergymen and 
four of whom shall be Laymen, who, together with the Bishop of the Diocese 
in which the Committee shall be located, shall be a Committee for Domestic 
Missions ; and eight other persons, four of whom shall be Clergymen and four 
of whom shall be Laymen, who, together with the Bishop of the Diocese in 
which the Committee shall be located, shall be a Committee for Foreign Mis- 
sions ;-all of whom shall be, ex-officio, members of the Board of Missions. The 


514 Proceedings of the Board of Missions. 1885, 


Board of Missions shall determine the location of the Committees respectively. 
Any Bishop or Bishops present at the place of meeting shall have a right, ew 
officio, to attend, as members of the same, the meetings of the Committees. 
Vacancies occurring in either of the Committees, during the recess of the Board, 
may be filled by the Committees respectively, subject to the approval of the 
Board at its next meeting. 

“Art. VIII, To the Committees of the Board thus constituted shall be re- 
ferred, in their respective departments, during the recess of the Board, the 
whole administration of the General Missionary work of the Church, subject 
to the regulations of the Board. Hach Committee shall make a Report of its 
proceedings to the Board of Missions at every meeting of the Board. | 

« ArT, IX, The Board of Missions shall appoint, for each Committee, a Sec- 
retary and General Agent, with a suitable salary, who shall be the executive 
officer of the Committee, to collect information, to conduct its correspondence, 
to devise and recommend plans of operation, and, in general, to execute all the 
purposes of the Board, in his proper sphere, submitting all his measures, 
before their adoption, to the Committee for whom he is appointed for their 
approval. Each Committee shall appoint a Treasurer. And the Board shall 
designate which of the Treasurers so appointed shall be authorized to receive 
all moneys not specially appropriated, which moneys shall be at the disposal of 
the Board. The Secretaries and Treasurers shall be, ex officio, members of their 
respective Committees and of the Board. Local and subordinate agents and 
officers may, when necessary, be appointed by each Committee. 

“ ArT. X. For the guidance of the Committees, it is declared that the Mis- 
sionary field is always to be regarded as one—THE WORLD; the terms Domes- 
tic and Foreign, being understood as terms of locality, adopted for convenience. 
Domestic Missions are those which are established within, and Foreign Missions 
are those which are established without the territory of the United States. 

“Art, XI. No Clergyman shall be appointed a Missionary by the Board, or 
by either of the Committees, without the recommendation of the ecclesiastical 
authority of the diocese to which he belongs; nor shall any Missionary be sent 
to officiate in any diocese without the consent of the ecclesiastical authority 
of the same; and no Clergyman shall be appointed a Missionary who is not at 
the time a minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church of regular standing ; 
and the appointment of a Missionary may be annulled at any time by the writ- 
ten direction or order of a majority of the Bishops of the Church. 

“Art. XII. The Board of Missions provided for in the third Article of this 
Constitution shall, in all cases, be continued in office until a new Board is 
elected. 

“ArvT, XIII. It is reeommended to every member of this Society to pray to 
Almighty God for His blessing upon its designs, under the full conviction that 
unless He direct us in all our doings with His most gracious favor, and further 
us with His continued help, we cannot reasonably hope to procure suitable per- 
sons to act as Missionaries, or expect that their endeavors will be successful. 


“BY-LAWS OF THE BOARD OF MISSIONS. 


“Art. I. Special meetings of the Board may be called on the joint request 


1835, Proceedings of the Board of Missions. 815 


of the two Executive Committees, or on the order of the presiding Bishop, or 
any two Bishops, reasonable notice being given through the post-office. 

“Art. Il. The Treasurers, respectively, shall keep an account with each 
Missionary of their respective departments. 

“They shall pay no moneys, except by the order of their respective Com- 
mittees, or of the Board. | 

“They shall render an account at the Annual Meetings of the Board. 

“ArT. III. The Board, at every Annual Meeting, shall appoint a Secretary, 

who shall continue in office until another is appointed. 
| “ ArT, IV. Five members shall constitute a quorum for each Committee. 

“Art. V. Vacancies occurring in either of the Committees, during the 
recess of the Board, shall not be filled at the same meeting at which they are 
announced ; and information of a vacancy to be supplied shall be given to each 
member. 

“ Art. VI. There shall be an Annual and Triennial Sermon before the 
Board of Missions, the preacher to be appointed by the Committees alternately, 
beginning with the Foreign Committee. 

“Art, VII. The rules of order customary in similar institutions shall pre- 
vail.” 


We make no comments upon the interesting facts which close 
this Part of our History, except to say that there was great re- 
joicing over the adoption of the new Constitution, which made 
‘the Society more comprehensive, and would, it was believed, 
greatly increase its efficiency for the further prosecution of the 
Missionary work. This one fact is added, viz., that two of those 
gentlemen who were in 1835 put upon the Foreign Committee, 
have served through all the subsequent years to the present time, 
and still give their valuable aid to the work of Foreign Missions. 


We refer to 
Freperick 8. Wryston, Esa., and 


Lewis Curtis, Esa. 
One other of the same Committee, appointed in 1835, 
James I’. De Prysrer, Esa., 
continued in the Committee—until within a few years past—a 
highly esteemed and valuable member of the same. 


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